In Zeynabs Nachfolge

Summary

This book offers readers a nuanced approach to one of the largest, yet in the German-speaking world barely researched, pilgrimage movements of the present day: the Shia Arba'in pilgrimage to Karbala. Drawing on 21 episodic interviews, the study shows how women in midlife experience the journey as a space for spiritual transformation, religious agency, embodied piety and transnational community. At the centre is Zaynab bint Ali as a model of female religious authority. An excursus on the Camino de Santiago sharpens the distinctive features of this experience in comparison with Western post-secular forms of female pilgrimage.

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Bibliographic data

Edition

1/2026

Copyright Year

2026

ISBN-Print

978-3-98740-191-6

ISBN-Online

978-3-98740-192-3

Publisher

Ergon, Baden-Baden

Series

Islam & Gender

Volume

6

Language

German

Pages

293

Product Type

Monograph