Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala

Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shiʿi Islam, Shiʿi Materiality beyond Karbala demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly.