RT Article
T1 Hierarchy into Heterarchy: Reshuffling the Cards of Authority in Urban Spaces between India and the Hijaz
JF Numen
VO 69
IS 2/3
SP 236
OP 257
A1 Parciack, Ronie
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/179939123X
AB This article addresses the heterarchical dynamism generated by the reorganization of sacred geographies in India and the Arabian Peninsula through contemporary iconographies and religious practices. The cities at the top of the orthodox Islamic/Arab sacred, authoritative hierarchy have lost their status in the current Indian context both concretely and symbolically, and have become equated, embedded, or subordinated to the Indian space. This dynamism is unfolding primarily in Indian vernacular spaces: in the material culture and audiovisual media produced and sold in Islamic bazaars in proximity to Sufi shrines; and in public religious practices that are reshuffling the sacred spaces of both India and the Hijaz, manifesting a polyphonic, at times rhizomatic fabric corresponding to social theorist Kyriakos Kontopoulos’s definition of a heterarchy.
K1 Muharram
K1 Taʿaziya processions
K1 Kaʿba
K1 Islam
K1 India
DO 10.1163/15685276-12341654