The Women of Karbala : Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam.

Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Gendered Aspects of the Emergence and Historical Development of Shi'i Symbols and Rituals (Kamran Scot Aghaie) -- PART 1: IRAN -- CHAPTER 1: Ta'ziyeh: A Twist of History in Everyday Life (Negar Mottahedeh) -- CHAPTER 2: The Gender Dynamics of Moharram Symbols and Rituals in the Latter Years of Qajar Rule (Kamran Scot Aghaie) -- CHAPTER 3: "Oh, My Heart Is Sad. It Is Moharram, the Month of Zaynab": The Role of Aesthetics and Women's Mourning Ceremonies in Shiraz (Ingvild Flaskerud) -- CHAPTER 4: The Daughters of Karbala: Images of Women in Popular Shi'i Culture in Iran (Faegheh Shirazi) -- CHAPTER 5: Iconography of the Women of Karbala: Tiles, Murals, Stamps, and Posters (Peter J. Chelkowski) -- PART 2: THE ARAB WORLD, SOUTH ASIA, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- CHAPTER 6: Sakineh, The Narrator of Karbala: An Ethnographic Description of a Women's Majles Ritual in Pakistan (Shemeem Burney Abbas) -- CHAPTER 7: Sayyedeh Zaynab: The Conqueror of Damascus and Beyond (Syed Akbar Hyder) -- CHAPTER 8: Gender and Moharram Rituals in an Isma'ili Sect of South Asian Muslims (Rehana Ghadially) -- CHAPTER 9: Women of Karbala Moving to America: Shi'i Rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California (Mary Elaine Hegland) -- CHAPTER 10: Women's Religious Rituals in Iraq (Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Basima Q. Bezirgan) -- CHAPTER 11: From Mourning to Activism: Sayyedeh Zaynab, Lebanese Shi' i Women, and the Transformation of Ashura (Lara Z. Deeb) -- Bibliography -- Index.

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