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[ii]- The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

[iii]- "The Day of the Lion: Lamentation Rituals and Shia Identity in Ladakh." Ladakh Studies 12 (1999) 21-30.

[iv]- "Shi'ism in South Asia" ,The Muslim World 87 (1997) 235-57.

[v]- "Shi'a Muslim Men's Associations and the Celebration of Muharram in Hyderabad, India" ,Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 16 (1992) 38-62.

[vi]- "Self- Mortification Rituals in the Shi'i and Christian Traditions" ,In The Shiite Heritage: Essays in Classical and Modern Traditions (ed. Lynda Clarke; New York: Global Publications / Binghamton University, 2001) 375-88.

[vii]- "Muslim-Buddhist Relations in a Ritual Context: An Analysis of the Muharram Procession in Leh Township, Ladakh.".

[viii]- "Zaynab bint 'Ali and the Place of the Women of the Households of the First Imams in Shiite Devotional Literature" ,In Women in the Medieval Islamic World (ed. Gavin Hambly; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998) 69-98.

[ix]- "Emotion and Art form in Contemporary Shia Muslim Ritual" ,Paper presented at the Conference on Emotion and Religious Discourse, Santa Clara University, May 1998.

[x]- "Shia-Sunni Relations: Possibilities of Reconciliation" ,Paper presented at the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 2002.

[xi]- "'We Are the Moths of Husain': Chapbook -Poems and the Performance of Muharram Rituals among Three Shia Men's Associations of Hyderabad, India" ,Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1994.

[xii]- "Shiite Lamentation Liturgies of Modern India and Christian Penitential Guilds of Fourteenth-Century Italy and Germany: A Comparative Analysis" ,Paper presented at the International Conference on Shi'i Islam, Philadelphia, PA, September 1993.