The Digitization of Muharram and the Digital Intermediation of the Shi'a Majlis

这个项目调查了南亚年轻的什叶派穆斯林中出现的一种趋势，即与穆哈拉姆月期间的哀悼时期有关的许多艺术品和仪式都被数字化和商品化。这一趋势源于全球什叶派社区面临的新机遇和新挑战。这些包括获得小型媒体技术，以及在伊拉克战争后前往卡尔巴拉朝圣的能力。这个项目聚焦于诺哈诗歌和阿舒拉音景，主要阐明了它们的数字化对当代什叶派中的大哀悼会概念的跨国影响，并审查了这带来的许多宗教主观性。通过这样做，它的目的是为中东和南亚伊斯兰社区的宗派冲突提供更适当的方法，在这些社区中，许多数字艺术品被使用和消费。

This project examines an emerging trend among young Shi'a Muslims in South Asia, whereby many artworks and ceremonies pertaining to the mourning period that takes place during the month of Muharram are digitized and commodified. This trend proceeds from new opportunities for, and challenges to, the global Shi'a community. These include access to small media technogies and the ability to undergo pilgrimages to Karbala following the Iraq war. Focussing on noha poetry and Ashura soundscapes, this project principally elucidates the transnational impact of their digitization on conceptions of the majlis (mourning assembly) within contemporary Shi'ism, and examines the many religious subjectivities that this entails. In so doing, it aims to inform more appropriate approaches to sectarian conflict in the Islamicate communities of the Middle East and South Asia, in which many of these digital artworks are used and consumed.