Ziva Vesel. « Note sur l’iconographie shiite populaire », in : Michele Bernardini, Masashi Haneda and Maria Szuppe, eds., Eurasian Studies [Liber Amicorum : Études sur l’Iran médiéval et moderne offertes à Jean Calmard]. Vol. V/1-2, 2006, pp. 371-376.
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1In this short article, Vesel explores manifestations of popular Shi’ite belief through the phenomenon of bāzū band; these bāzū bands are armlets which profile a talismanic hand and are often worn by Shi’ites seeking favour from the Imams. One of the most recognizable icons of popular Shi’ism, the disembodied hand represents the narrative of Abū al-Faḍl al-‘Abbās, half-brother to Ḥusayn, who lost his arms and hands at Karbalā in 680 after trying to deliver water to the beleaguered Shi’ite camp of women and children. This bāzū band is understood at the popular level to confer spiritual protection, and we see its appearance as early as the 12th century in an anonymous text on magic and astronomy (Yavāqīt al-‘ulūm va darārī al-nujūm). Vesel in turn introduces us to
near-contemporary literature on these devices, principally via the writings of Šayḫ Ḥabib ibn Mūsā Najafī. In particular, his Jāmi‘ al-favā‘id fī asrār al-maqāṣid constitutes “une véritable encyclopédie” of the Shi’ite occult sciences, and in this sense, is probably not unlike the other source mentioned by the author, Ḥusayn ‘Aqīlī Rustamdārī’s Riyāḍ
al-abrār (ca. 1571).
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Colin P. Mitchell, « Ziva Vesel. « Note sur l’iconographie shiite populaire », in : Michele Bernardini, Masashi Haneda and Maria Szuppe, eds., Eurasian Studies [Liber Amicorum : Études sur l’Iran médiéval et moderne offertes à Jean Calmard]. Vol. V/1-2, 2006, pp. 371-376. », Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 29 | 2008, document 287, mis en ligne le 15 septembre 2008, consulté le 29 mars 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/30282 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.30282
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