Indexing Imams: The Urdu Shiʿi Practice of Khiṭābat.

Khiṭābat (oratory) is a regular and integral part of the ritual lives of Urdu-speaking Shiʿa devotees in contemporary Karachi, Pakistan. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that indexicality, the physical relationship between a sign and its context of use, is necessary to any...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 94; no. 1; pp. 106 - 125
Autor principal: Jafri, Mohammad Nabeel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Mar2026
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