Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran’s Post-War Politics
Seiten
2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3677-6 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3677-6 (ISBN)
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
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 Shiʿi 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.
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 Shiʿi 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.
Sana Chavoshian is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin and Associate Researcher at the Centre for Advance Studies “Multiple Secularities: Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” in Leipzig University.
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: Shiʿi Touchings – An Elemental View
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Shi’i Materiality |
| Zusatzinfo | 19 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3677-X / 139953677X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3677-6 / 9781399536776 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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