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The women of Karbala : ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shiʻi Islam /
Twelve ethnographic essays that explore women's roles in the rituals that commemorate the Battle of Karbala, the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Taʻziyeh : a twist of history in everyday life / Negar Mottahedeh
- The gender dynamics of Moharram symbols and rituals in the latter years of Qajar rule / Kamran Scot Aghaie
- "Oh, my heart is sad. it is Moharram, and the moth of Zaynab" : the role of aesthetics and women's mourning ceremonies in Shiraz / Ingvild Flaskerud
- The daughters of Karbala : images of women in popular Shiʻi culture in Iran / Faegheh Shirazi
- Iconography of the women of Karbala : tiles, murals, stamps, and posters / Peter J. Chelkowski
- Sakineh, the narrator of Karbala : an ethnographic description of a women's Majles ritual in Pakistan / Shemeem Burney Abbas
- Sayyedeh Zaynab : the conqueror of Damascus and beyond / Syed Akbar Hyder
- Gender and Moharram rituals in an Ismaʻili sect of South Asian Muslims / Rehana Ghadially
- Women of Karbala moving to America : Shi'i rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California / Mary Elaine Hegland
- Women's religious rituals in Iraq / Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Basima Q. Bezirgan
- From mourning to activism : Sayyedeh Zaynad, Lebanese Shiʻi women, and the transformation of Ashura.