Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam

Project Information

ALTERUMMA

Grant agreement ID: 724557

DOI

10.3030/724557

Project closed

EC signature date 25 July 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 952 373,99

EU contribution

€ 1 952 373,99

Coordinated by

LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

Divine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shi‘i Islamism: Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945) on the Islamic State

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021, ISSN 1356-1863
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1356186321000304

Collective hawza leadership in a time of crisis: the period of marajeʿ thalath (1937–1953)

Author(s): Mohammad Mesbahi
Published in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021, ISSN 1353-0194
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2021.1886657

The International Community in the Eyes of Ayatollah Al-Sistani: Attitudes Towards the United Nations and the U.S.A. Post 2003

Author(s): Yousif Al-Hilli
Published in: US-China Law Review, Issue 19/3, 2022, ISSN 1548-6605
Publisher: David Publishing
DOI: 10.17265/1548-6605/2022.03.002

Dynamic Quietism and the Consolidation of the ḥawza ʿilmīyya of Qum during the Pahlavi Era

Author(s): Mohammad Mesbahi
Published in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021, ISSN 1353-0194
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2021.1990746

From the Throes of Anguished Mourning

Author(s): Fouad Gehad Marei
Published in: Religion and Society, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 133-147, ISSN 2150-9298
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2020.110110

Nation-destroying, emigration and Iraqi nationhood after the 2003 intervention

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: International Affairs, Issue 6 February 2023, 2023, ISSN 0020-5850
Publisher: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiac322

Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State: Maududi and His Influence

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt Humeira Iqtidar
Published in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021, ISSN 1356-1863
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1356186321000766

Making Fatima’s Presence Visible: Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran

Author(s): Yafa Shanneik
Published in: Material Religion, 2023, ISSN 1751-8342
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2022.2154970

Governing Dahiya: Interrogating the State in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

Author(s): Fouad Gehad Marei
Published in: Leadership and Developing Societies, Issue 5/1, 2020, Page(s) 12-36, ISSN 2399-2859
Publisher: African Leadership Centre
DOI: 10.47697/lds.34348002

Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation (taṭbīr)

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2022, ISSN 1353-0194
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2022.2057279

Between Mezhep and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere

Author(s): Stefan Williamson Fa
Published in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2023, ISSN 1471-6380
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0020743823001083

Voices of Sorrow and Joy: Cultivating Relations with the Unseen in Muslim Devotion

Author(s): Stefan Williamson Fa
Published in: Cultural Anthropology, Issue 37:4, 2022, ISSN 0886-7356
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.14506/ca37.4.02

Ethno-sectarianism in Iraq, diaspora positionality and political transnationalism

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2018, ISSN 1471-0374
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12222

Unpacking the role of religion in political transnationalism: the case of the Shi'a Iraqi diaspora since 2003

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: International Affairs, Issue 96/2, 2020, Page(s) 305-322, ISSN 0020-5850
Publisher: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiz252

Khomeini and Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī: Revisiting the Origins of the “Guardianship of the Jurisconsult” (wilāyat al-faqīh)

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: Die Welt des Islams, 2020, Page(s) 1-30, ISSN 0043-2539
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700607-00600a08

Karamah (‘marvel’): an exploration of the literal and ethnographic meaning of miracles among Shi`a female artists in Kuwait

Author(s): Nada Al-Hudaid
Published in: World Art, Issue 10/1, 2020, Page(s) 145-159, ISSN 2150-0894
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2020.1735502

Assessing co-development projects for civil society building in Iraq: the case of the Iraqi diaspora and Swedish institutions following the 2003 intervention in Iraq

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Issue 46/2, 2019, Page(s) 222-241, ISSN 1353-0194
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2019.1569302

A minority within a minority?: the complexity and multilocality of transnational Twelver Shia networks in Britain

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: Contemporary Islam, Issue 13/3, 2019, Page(s) 287-305, ISSN 1872-0218
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-018-0431-0

Creating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain: Twelver Shia Networks in London

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, Issue 31/1, 2020, Page(s) 23-40, ISSN 0959-6410
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2019.1643098

Lamenting Karbala in Europe: Husayni Liturgy and Discourses of Dissent amongst Diasporic Bahraini and Lebanese Shiis

Author(s): Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik
Published in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2021, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 0959-6410
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2020.1827341

Art, dreams and miracles: reflections and representations

Author(s): Nada al-Hudaid
Published in: World Art, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2150-0894
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2020.1737212

Where politics and temporality meet: Shi’a political transnationalism over time and its relationship to the Iraqi state

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020, ISSN 1369-183X
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1814128

Book chapters (8)

Sectarianism

Author(s): Fouad Marei
Published in: Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change, 2020, Page(s) 273-274
Publisher: ABC-CLIO

‘Spatial methodology’ in religion and belief research: The example of a study of Twelver Shii Muslim networks in Britain

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: Re-imagining Religion and Belief: 21st Century Policy and Practice, 2018
Publisher: Policy Press

Creating Shia Spaces in British Society: The Role of Transnational Twelver Shia Networks in North-West London

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt
Published in: British Muslims and Their Discourses, 2024
Publisher: Springer

"""Hüseyn’im Vay!”: Voice and Recitation Among Shi’i Muslims in Turkey"

Author(s): Stefan Williamson Fa
Published in: Diversity and Contact Among Singer-Poet Traditions in Eastern Anatolia, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95650-286-6
Publisher: Ergon Verlag

Dahiya Doctrine

Author(s): Fouad Marei
Published in: Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change, 2020, Page(s) 75+76, ISBN 978-1-4408-6502-2
Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Mahmud Taliqani

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt Mohammad Mesbahi
Published in: Handbook of Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Vol. 4, Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the 19th and 20th Century, 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter

Twelver Shi'a in Turkey

Author(s): Stefan Williamson Fa
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey, 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197624883.013.36

Diaspora as non-state actors in the international system

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development, 2020
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781351172202-35

Other (3)

Editorial (special issue on Shia Muslims in the UK)

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt, Reza Gholami and Sufyan Abid Dogra
Published in: Contemporary Islam, Issue 13, 2019
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-019-00444-9

The UK Iraqi Diaspora and their Mobilization towards Iraq: Homeland Politics, Internal Dynamics, and the Fragmentation of Diasporic Transnationalism

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: The New Arab Diaspora Series, 2021
Publisher: Arab Reform Initiative

Iraqi diaspora mobilization and the future development of Iraq

Author(s): Oula Kadhum
Published in: Atlanic Council, 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Council

Monographic books (3)

Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality

Author(s): Oliver Scharbrodt, Yafa Shanneik
Published in: 2020, ISBN 9781-474430371
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond

Author(s): Yafa Shanneik
Published in: Middle East Studies series, 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009030335

Global dynamics of Shi‘a marriages: religion, gender, and belonging

Author(s): Yafa Shanneik Annelies Moors
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781978818460
Publisher: Rutgers University Press