“The Power of Place, the Mediation of the Text: Anthropological Remarks on the Pious Visit to Karbalā”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the journal Studia Islamica (Brill, 2021), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), offers an anthropological analysis of the ziyāra, the pious visit to Shia holy places, focusing in particular on Karbalā, where Imam Husayn is buried.
Bringing together the observation of practices and the mediation of devotional texts, she shows how the holy place concentrates a spiritual power that the pilgrim experiences, negotiates and transmits, at the heart of Twelver Shia piety.
Dans la revue Studia Islamica (Brill, 2021), Sepideh Parsapajouh, anthropologue au CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), propose une analyse anthropologique de la ziyāra, la visite pieuse aux lieux saints chiites, en s’attachant en particulier à Karbalā, où repose l’imam Husayn.
Croisant l’observation des pratiques et la médiation des textes de dévotion, elle montre comment le lieu saint concentre une puissance spirituelle que le pèlerin éprouve, négocie et transmet, au cœur de la piété chiite duodécimaine.
في مجلّةِ ستوديا إسلاميكا (Studia Islamica، دار بريل، 2021)، تُقدّمُ سيبيده بارساباجوه، الأنثروبولوجيّةُ في المركزِ الوطنيِّ الفرنسيِّ للبحثِ العلميّ، تحليلاً أنثروبولوجيّاً للزيارةِ، أي زيارةِ الأماكنِ المقدّسةِ الشيعيّة، مركّزةً خاصّةً على كربلاء حيثُ يرقدُ الإمامُ الحسين.
وبالجمعِ بين ملاحظةِ الممارساتِ ووساطةِ نصوصِ التقوى، تُبيّنُ كيف يُكثّفُ المكانُ المقدّسُ طاقةً روحيّةً يختبرُها الزائرُ ويتفاوضُ معها ويَنقلُها، في صميمِ التقوى الشيعيّةِ الإماميّة.
Sepideh Parsapajouh, « Pouvoir du lieu, médiation du texte : Remarques anthropologiques sur la visite pieuse à Karbalā », Studia Islamica, 116/2, Brill, 2021, p. 346-392.
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