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This book focuses on the importance of topical reading in understanding Islamic figures and themes, and applies this approach to two landmark Elizabethan plays: George Peele's Battle of Alcazar and William Percy's Mahomet and his Heaven. The former is the first English play to present a Moor as a major character, while the latter is the first English play to be based on Quranic material and feature the Prophet of Islam as a major character. In both plays, the book argues, topical concerns pla...

Islam and the performing arts. --- Islamic drama. --- Islamic literature --- Performing arts and Islam --- Performing arts

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One of the most important current debates within and about Islam concerns its relation with power. Can Muslims be fundamentally content without power or as a minority? This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons. Indian Shi'i Muslims are a minority within a minority, constituting about ten to fifteen percent of the population as a whole, but comprising of about fifteen million people. Ten sermons are presented entirely and many more are quoted in order to analyze the preaching tradition in full. This book is the first survey to present the Indian mourning

Shīʻah --- Religious life --- Taʻziyah. --- Passion-plays, Shiite --- Shiite passion-plays --- Tazia --- Islamic drama --- Persian drama --- Religious drama --- Tenth of Muḥarram --- Shiite religious practice --- Shiite sermons --- Islamic sermons --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Islamic sects --- Alids --- Shīʻah. --- Customs and practices. --- Islam --- Shiite authors --- Shiites --- Religious life (Islam) --- Islam.

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Persian passion play or ta'ziya depicts the role of the Prophet's granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karbala in 680. This book depicts how Zeynab has become a role model in modern Iranian society, especially during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

Taʻziyah --- Taʻziyah. --- Literary studies: plays & playwrights --- History and criticism. --- Zaynab bint ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. --- Zeynab. --- Passion-plays, Shiite --- Shiite passion-plays --- Tazia --- Islamic drama --- Persian drama --- Religious drama --- Tenth of Muḥarram --- Sayyidah Zainab bint Fāt̤imah al-Zahr --- Sayyidah Zaynab --- Syedah Zainab bint Fatimatuz Zahra --- Zainab --- Zainab s̲ānī Zahr --- Zaynab al-Kubr --- Zaynab bint ʻAlī, --- Zaynab al-Kubrá --- زينب بنت على الحسين --- زينب بنت علي ابن أبي طالب --- زينب بنت علي بن أبي طالب --- Zainab s̲ānī Zahrā --- زينب ثانى زهرا --- Sayyidah Zainab bint Fāt̤imah al-Zahrā --- ‏سيّده زينب بنت فاطمه الزهرا‏ --- Shi'ism, Islam, Iran, Islamic History, Passion Play, Cultural Studies.