Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran?s Post-War Politics
Series: Studies in Shi?i Materiality;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399536776
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 black and white illustrations 700
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Short description:
Explores the haptic relations that connect the mothers and wives of the fallen soldiers of the Iran?Iraq war (1980?88) to their sons and husbands as martyrs
MoreLong description:
How would a switch from the inner to the outer, from the inwardness to the surface, from the habitus to the haptic alter our anthropological thinking about Islam? How do micro matters permeate the terrain of Shi?i women’s religious practice and Iran’s contemporary politics? Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran's Post-War Politics explores the haptic relations that connect mothers and wives of the fallen soldiers of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) to their sons and husbands as martyrs. They have played a crucial role in the legitimation discourse of the Iranian state and transformed the very grounds on which religious nationalist and statist projects can be envisioned and practiced. Mourning mothers of martyrs covered in black veils have not only been integrated into a state-revering cult, but have incorporated their conduct into state’s apparatus. This book takes the reader on a journey from women’s dreamworld to their practices of intercession in cemeteries and former battlefields to show material and affective exposures in crafting relics.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Touching Micro-relics of War
1. The Veil: Rematerialising Women in Politics of Piety
2. Dream and Aura: Mothers’ Veneration of Saints and Martyrs in Dreamworld
3. Scent and Tint: Mothers and Martyrs in the Cemetery
4. Blood and Genes: Kinning Martyrs and Missing Soldiers
5. Dust and Rust: Women’s Pilgrimage to the Battlefields
Conclusion: Shi?i Touchings – An Elemental View
References
Index
