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This study seeks to analyse the iconic representations of Imam Ali depicted in popular Shia religious art displayed in domestic and public settings. It has a great significance in the ritual and devotional life of majority of the Shia community in the province of Punjab. Therefore the function of such posters has been discussed in ritual and devotional context. This study explores the achievable meanings and characters of Imam Ali imaginary depictions in the popular posters and personal piety. This study further discusses the representation of status and roles by also considering the signification of paraphernalia and attributes. We discussed the local viewer’s response and reception of such devotional posters in their immediate environments from various perspectives: in relations to iconographic convention, local viewer’s interpretive strategies and opinions, and the function of images. We argue that the objects of devotion discussed in this study weld the unity between the image itself and the beholder The popular posters of Imam Ali are often served as votive images, the vow in presented to God through holy personages. In this context, during ethnographic field research and through the statements of many interlocutors we attempt to account for the expression, reception and function of imageries in the living tradition of Shia community’s religious life. With the help of many male informants, this study is based on an ethnographic field research conducted in selected cities and their suburbs in the province of Punjab (Pakistan).

Muhammad Asghar, Muhammad Arshad Rehmani. (2018) The Lion of God: Function, Expression and Reception of Popular Devotional Posters, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 31, issue 1.
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