The women of Karbala [[electronic resource] ] : ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shiʻi Islam / / edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie

• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.8/2/082
• Soggetto topico: Shīʻah - Rituals; Religious life - Shīʻah; Muslim women - Religious life; Karbalāʼ, Battle of, Karbalāʼ, Iraq, 680
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AghaieKamran Scot
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 ""
• Titolo autorizzato: The women of Karbala
• ISBN: 0-292-79657-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451368103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II