Ḥasan Naṣrallāh's ʿAshūrāʾ Speeches: The Thin Line between Ethics and Identity
The Lebanese political organization Hizbullah has developed its own style of commemorating ʿāshūrāʾ, the Shiʿi period of mourning in remembrance of the Battle of Karbalāʾ. Previous scholarship has analyzed Hizbullah's ʿāshūrāʾ with prevailing conceptual binaries such as politics/religion, reaso...
| Published in: | Die Welt des Islams |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2019, Volume: 59, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 384-410 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Naṣrallāh, Ḥasan 1960-
/ Lebanon
/ Hizbullah
/ Tenth of Muḥarram
/ Religious identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Modernity B Religion B Ritual B Party Politics B Identity |
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| Summary: | The Lebanese political organization Hizbullah has developed its own style of commemorating ʿāshūrāʾ, the Shiʿi period of mourning in remembrance of the Battle of Karbalāʾ. Previous scholarship has analyzed Hizbullah's ʿāshūrāʾ with prevailing conceptual binaries such as politics/religion, reason/tradition, or reason/emotion. This article challenges such binaries by looking at the series of speeches given by Hizbullah's secretary general, Ḥasan Naṣrallāh, during the annual ʿāshūrāʾ rituals. Naṣrallāh's oratory skills, and most importantly the careful structuring of the ten-day mourning event, show clearly that the production of reasoned arguments through speech involves the cultivation of intense emotions and states of consciousness. These are conducive not only to collective action and identity formation but also to ethical practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Islams
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700607-05934P06 |