Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism

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Gender, Sainthood, & Everyday Practice in South Asian Shiʿism ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION & MUSLIM NETWORKS Carl W. Ernst & Bruce B. Lawrence, editors A complete list of titles published in this series appears at the end of the book. Gender, Sainthood, & Everyday Practice in South Asian Shiʿism KAREN G. RUFFLE The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill © 2011 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS All rights reserved. Set in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ruffle, Karen G. Gender, sainthood, and everyday practice in South Asian Shiʿism / Karen G. Ruffle. p. cm. — (Islamic civilization and Muslim networks) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8078-3475-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Shiʿah—India. 2. Shiʿah—Customs and practices. 3. Hyderabad (India)—Religious life and customs. 4. Religious life—Shiʿah. 5. Women in Islam—India. I. Title. BP192.7.I4R84 2011 297.5′7082095484—dc22 2011000070 Versions of some chapters of this book have been published as “May Fatimah Gather Our Tears: The Mystical and Intercessory Powers of Fatimah Zahra in Indo-Persian, Shiʿi Devotional Literature and Performance,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 30:3 (November 2010): 386–97; “Karbala in the Indo-Persian Imaginaire: The Indianizing of the Wedding of Qāsim and Fāṭima Kubrā,” in Islam in the Indo-Iranian World during the Modern Epoch, edited by Denis Hermann and Fabrizio Speziale (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2010), 181–200; and “Who Could Marry at a Time Like This?: Debating the Mehndi ki Majlis in Hyderabad,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 29:3 (November 2009): 502–14. Used by permission. cloth 1514131211 5 4 3 2 1 For Andreas D’Souza This page intentionally left blank ...