Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan
Singing and Sounding Community
Series: Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399533881
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 colour illustrations 700
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Short description:
An illuminating account of Ismaili music, spiritual poetry and social change in Badakhshan.
MoreLong description:
In the riverine valleys of the Pamir Mountains of Tajik Badakhshan, a thriving millennium-old community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims created a unique spiritual culture in which the performance of music and poetry plays a central role. This book focuses on the central musical and poetic tradition of the Pamiri Ismailis, qas?da-khon? (also known as maddo), tracing its origins, evolution, and eventual delocalization and relocation in new social contexts. The first study on the musical culture of the Pamiri Ismailis in almost 20 years, this monograph introduces readers to leading performers of qas?da-khon? and to the Ismaili gnosis that inspires its music and poetry—a foundational source for an understanding of Islam in Badakhshan as an amalgam of diverse cultural practices and multi-layered identities. In an era of cultural globalization, the circulation of qas?da-khon? and maddo beyond Badakhshan serves as a case study of global cultural flows, diversity, versatility, and connectedness.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
1. Situating Qas?da-khon? in the Cultural History of Tajik Badakhshan
2. Learning, Practicing and Performing Qas?da-khon?
3. Performative Texts in the Qas?da-khon?
4. Mourning Rituals and Weddings: The Traditional Contexts of Qas?da-khon?
5. New Contexts: The Effect of Religious Globalisation and National Politics
Epilogue
References
Index
