essay
The Shi'a mosques and their congregations in Dearborn
Muslim communities in North America • Albany, N. Y. • Published In 1994 • Pages: 337-357
By: Walbridge, Linda S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document describes the three major Shi'a mosques in Dearborn, Michigan -- the Islamic Center of America, the Islamic Institute, and the Islamic Council of America -- their development, leadership, and differences between them in their respective interpretation of religious law in the cultural context in which their congregations live. Much of the emphasis in this work is on the Islamic Center of American under the guidance of Imam Mohammed Jawad Chirri.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Religious and educational structures
- Settlement patterns
- Prophets and ascetics
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1940s - 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dearborn, Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Linda S. Walbridge
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93036564
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans