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Introduction

Lecturer: Payam Mohseni, Director of the Project on Shi’ism & Global Affairs, Harvard Divinity School

Duration: 16 minutes

Part I. The Foundations
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Orientation Videos & Materials - What is Shi'ism? What is Ashura?

Session 1 – An Overview of the Scholarly Study of Ashura and the Life of Imam Hussain

Immersive Learning: The Art & Imaginative Storytelling on the Philosophy of Imam Hussain and Ashura​

Session 2 – Life of Imam Hussain

Imam Hussain through Primary Sources

Session 3 – Historiography and Memory-Interpretation and Meaning-Making in Sources on Imam Hussain

Session 4 – The Legacy of Karbala: Social and Political Reverberances after Ashura in Pre-Modern Islamic History

Session 5 – A Deluge Of Tears: The Conflux Of Persian Shi'i Literature, Ritual, And Identity In Martyrdom Narratives

Session 6 – Imam Hussain, al-Mukhtar and the Origins of Shi’a Representative Politics

Part II. Philosophical and Theoretical Discussions on Ashura
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Session 7 - Launching Ashura at Harvard and the Importance of Supporting Ashura Studies in America

Session 8 - 'I Saw Naught but the Beautiful': Some Unrecognized Theologies of Ashura

Session 9 - The Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Ashura

Session 10 – Ink Stained with Tears: Karbala Poetry and Its Enduring Impact on Collective Consciousness

Session 11 – Ashura & Imamology in the Mirror of Being

Session 12 – Breaking 'Religion' - Understanding the Imam and the Philosophy of Religion

Session 13 – Usul al-Din and the Secret Garden

Knowing the Imam (AJ) Workshop

Session 14 - The Ziyarat of Imam al-Husayn as Liturgical Text in Early Shi‘i Hadith

Session 15 – The Maqtal Of Hussain: Al-Tabarani's Approach To The Uprising In Karbala

Session 16 - Yazid's Condemnation in Sunni Islamic Society: Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Issue of Cursing Yazid b. Mu'aviya

Session 17 - The Nobility of Hussain in Islamic Ethics: An Analysis of Karbala Narratives

Part III. Regional and Local Variations: Approaching Case Studies of Muharram Culture and History
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Session 18 - The Symbolism of Muharram Rituals in South Asia

Session 19 - Shi'ism and the Manifestation of Ashura in the Malay World

Session 20 - Betwixt and Between Culture and Religion: Hosay as a Universal Phenomenon

Session 21 - Rethinking Ta'ziyeh

Session 22 - Expressions of Shi'ism in Pakistan

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