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Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Author : Erika Friedl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755616758
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran written by Erika Friedl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1960s, little was known inside or outside Iran about the tribes living in the country. The anthropological research of Erika Friedl is now renowned for presenting comprehensive data collected over a 50-year period from her time among the Boir Ahmad tribal people living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. In this new book, Friedl turns her attention to the subject of religion, which she had only touched upon in her previous work. About ninety percent of people in Iran and nearly everybody in Boir Ahmad are Muslims of the Twelver Shia group. However, studies of tribal people's religiosity, beliefs and rituals are scarce, and many researchers have discounted their views and experience, regarding the tribes as only “nominally religious” because their practices do not fit in with the mainstream practices and ideas in Iran. Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran corrects this view and provides a hallmark study of tribal people's religiosity. Demonstrating the great diversity of their philosophical and religious ideas, the book reveals the ways in which the tribes choose and express their religion, define their communities and understand their world. From conversations about God and his relationships with people, to observations on ageing and death, and research into the tribe's use of spells, amulets and sacrifices, to their beliefs about saints, health and well-being, the book is an original ethnographic exploration of religion and daily life.

Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran

Author : Erika Friedl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075561674X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran written by Erika Friedl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1960s, little was known inside or outside Iran about the tribes living in the country. The anthropological research of Erika Friedl is now renowned for presenting comprehensive data collected over a 50-year period from her time among the Boir Ahmad tribal people living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. In this new book, Friedl turns her attention to the subject of religion, which she had only touched upon in her previous work. About ninety percent of people in Iran and nearly everybody in Boir Ahmad are Muslims of the Twelver Shia group. However, studies of tribal people's religiosity, beliefs and rituals are scarce, and many researchers have discounted their views and experience, regarding the tribes as only “nominally religious” because their practices do not fit in with the mainstream practices and ideas in Iran. Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran corrects this view and provides a hallmark study of tribal people's religiosity. Demonstrating the great diversity of their philosophical and religious ideas, the book reveals the ways in which the tribes choose and express their religion, define their communities and understand their world. From conversations about God and his relationships with people, to observations on ageing and death, and research into the tribe's use of spells, amulets and sacrifices, to their beliefs about saints, health and well-being, the book is an original ethnographic exploration of religion and daily life.

Iranian Romance in the Digital Age

Author : Janet Afary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755618289
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Iranian Romance in the Digital Age written by Janet Afary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women's rights, and the state revived many premodern social conventions through modern means and institutions. Customs such as the enforced veiling of women, easy divorce for men, child marriage, and polygamy were robustly reintroduced and those who did not conform to societal strictures were severely punished. At the same time, new social and economic programs benefited the urban and rural poor, especially women, which had a direct impact on gender relations and the institution of marriage. Edited by Janet Afary and Jesilyn Faust, this interdisciplinary volume responds to the growing interest and need for literature on gender, marriage and family relations in the Islamic context. The book examines how the institution of marriage transformed in Iran, paying close attention to the country's culture and politics. Part One examines changes in urban marriages to new forms of cohabitation. In Part Two contributors, such as Soraya Tremayne, explore the way technology and social media has impacted and altered the institution of family. Part Three turns its eye to look at marital changes in the rural and tribal sectors of society through the works of anthropologists including Erika Friedl and Mary Hegland. Based on the work of both new and established scholars, the book provides an up-to-date study of an important and intensely politicized subject.

Revolution Beyond the Event

Author : Charlotte Al-Khalili
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800081189
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution Beyond the Event written by Charlotte Al-Khalili and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores the idea that revolutions have varied afterlives that complicate the assumptions about their duration, pace and progression, and argues that a renewed focus on the temporality of radical politics is essential to our understanding of revolution. Approaching revolution through its relationship to time, the book is a critical intervention into attempts to define revolutions as bounded events that act as sequential transitions from one political system to another. It pursues an ethnographically driven rethinking of the temporal horizons that are at stake in revolutionary processes, arguing that linear views of revolution are inextricably tied to notions of progress and modernity. Through a careful selection of case studies, the book provides a critical perspective on the lived realities of revolutionary afterlives, challenging the liberal humanist assumptions implicit in the ‘modern’ idea of revolution, and reappraising the political agency of people caught up in revolutionary situations across a variety of ethnographic contexts.

Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000583902
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual and practice are one of the most distinctive features of religion, and they are linked with its central beliefs. Islam is no exception here, and this Handbook covers many aspects of those beliefs and practices. It describes the variety of what takes place but mainly why, and what the implications of both the theory and practice have for our understanding of Islam. The book includes accounts of prayer, food, pilgrimage, mosques, and the various legal and doctrinal schools that exist within Islam, with the focus on how they influence practice. The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss the wide range of Muslim ritual and practice and provide a sound guide to this significant aspect of the religious life of one of the largest groups of believers in the world today.

Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran

Author : Erika Friedl
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781399536738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and the Art of Living in the Zagros Mountains of Iran written by Erika Friedl and published by EUP. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times

The History of Ancient Iran

Author : Richard Nelson Frye
Publisher : C.H.Beck
ISBN 13 : 9783406093975
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book The History of Ancient Iran written by Richard Nelson Frye and published by C.H.Beck. This book was released on 1984 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mountain Jews

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9789652783158
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Jews written by and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to tradition Caucasian Jews descended from the Ten Tribes exiled from the Kingdom of Israel in the first millenium BCE, making them one of the oldest communities of Jewish people anywhere. This remarkable population preserved its Jewish identity and developed a culture of its own in a region inhabited by a host of different peoples and plagued by ethnic tensions. The term "Mountain Jews" (they call themselves "Juhur") dates back to Imperial Russia's occupation of the Caucasus in the early nineteenth century, when the tsar's visiting representative referred to "Mountain Jews" living mainly in the east and north of the Caucasus range, in what is today the largely Muslim areas of Dagestan and Azerbaijan. After their emigration to Israel, Caucasian Jews continued to resist integration, sharing in Israel's upbuilding without losing touch with their roots in and ties to the Caucasus. Along with her fellow essayists Mordechai Altshuler, Moshe Yosifov, Michael Zand, Ariella Amar, Boris Khaimovich, Anatoly Binyaminov, and Tyilo Khizghilov, author Liya Mikdash-Shamailov, a Jew of Caucasian origin, successfully blends her scientific interest in the community with her own special affinity with its culture. The fruit of many years of field work and extensive research, Mountain Jews presents, in words and striking pictures of this people and its practices, the history, spiritual life, language and literature, daily life, material culture, and decorative arts which together define the rich and extraordinary cultural heritage of Caucasian, "Mountain" Jews.

Iran

Author : William Mark Habeeb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1633559874
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Iran written by William Mark Habeeb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iran-or Persia, as it was known until the 1930s-is home to one of the world's oldest cultures. Over the years it has exerted a great influence over its neighbors in the Middle East and Central Asia. Although Iran was once a close ally of the United States, in 1979 supporters of the Islamic fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the government and instituted a new one based on strict interpretation of Islamic law. In the years since then, U.S.-Iranian relations have been hostile. Today, however, Iran is once again undergoing an internal struggle. Iranians-particularly the younger generation-are trying to reconcile the changes that followed the 1979 Islamic Revolution with the needs and requirements of life in the 21st century. The outcome of this struggle between religious conservatives and the reformers will determine Iran's future. Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and major cities of Iran.

Civil Society and Democracy in Iran

Author : Ramin Jahanbegloo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172239
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Democracy in Iran written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the process of transition to democracy in Iran and offer insight about the enduring legacy of previous social and political movements—starting with the Constitutional Revolution of 1906— in the struggle for democracy in Iran. Each contributor looks at different aspects of Iranian civil society to address the complex nature of the political order in Iran and the possibilities for secularization and democratization of the Iranian government. Various contributors analyze the impact of religion on prevailing democratic thought, discussing reformist religious movements and thinkers and the demands of religious minorities. Others provide insight into the democratic implications of recent Iranian women’s rights movements, call for secularism within government, and the pressure placed on the existing theocracy by the working class. The contributors address these and related issues in all their richness and complexity and offer a set of discussions that is both accessible and illuminating for the reader.

The Mantle of the Prophet

Author : Roy Mottahedeh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780747381
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Mantle of the Prophet written by Roy Mottahedeh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Shi'i Reformation in Iran

Author : Professor Ali Rahnema
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472434161
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Shi'i Reformation in Iran written by Professor Ali Rahnema and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shi'i Reformation in Iran, Rahnema offers a fresh understanding of Sangelaji’s reformist discourse from a theological standpoint, and takes readers into the heart of the key religious debates in Iran in the 1940s. Drawing on the writings of Sangelaji, as well as interviews with his son, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the reformist’s ideas. As such it offers scholars of religion and Middle Eastern politics alike a penetrating insight into the impact that these ideas have had on Shi’ism–an impact which is still felt today.

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107150388
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Ages in 50 Objects written by Elina Gertsman and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath

Suleiman the Magnificent

Author : André Clot
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863568033
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Suleiman the Magnificent written by André Clot and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad. Faced with this redoubtable champion, who regarded it as his duty to extend the boundaries of Islam farther and farther, the Christian world struggled to unite against him. 'The Shadow of God on Earth', but also an expert politician and all-powerful despot, Suleiman ruled the state firmly with the help of his viziers. He extended the borders of the empire beyond what any of the Ottoman sultans had achieved, yet it is primarily as a lawgiver that he is remembered in Turkish history. His empire held dominion over three continents populated by more than thirty million inhabitants, among whom nearly all of the races and religions of mankind were represented. Prospering under a well-directed, authoritarian economy, Suleiman's reign marked the apogee of Ottoman power. City and country alike experienced unprecedented economic and demographic growth. Istanbul was the largest city in the world, enjoying a remarkable renaissance of arts and letters; a mighty capital, it was the seat of the Seraglio and dark intrigue. 'Clot's informed and intelligent study is to be commended ... Brings back to life a man, an empire and an era.' -- Digest of Middle East Studies 'Excellent ... The best book from which to gain an introduction to Suleiman's era.' -- Middle East Journal

Global Connections

Author : John Coatsworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191890
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Global Connections written by John Coatsworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of this undergraduate history textbook covers the origin of hominids through to the Middle Ages.

The Armenian Testament

Author : G.H. Guarch
Publisher : Editorial Almuzara
ISBN 13 : 8411311570
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Armenian Testament written by G.H. Guarch and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century saw two great world wars. It was a century of crisis, as it was also of change and progress. However, he will be remembered for two huge human tragedies, in which groups of people tried to annihilate specific ethnic groups. This is the case of the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. The Armenian Testament is a historical novel in which the circumstances, characters and places are collected, as well as the political motivations that gave rise to the so-called "Armenian Genocide" between 1915 and 1916. The protagonist is a fictional character, like many those that appear throughout the book. However, the fundamental facts, the actors in the process that gave rise to massacres and deportations, are real, and their perverse policies caused one of the greatest crimes committed against humanity. Despite this, Turkey still does not recognize the genocide and does not understand that such a step would mean a national catharsis, which would help in its transformation into a modern European nation. Then, and only then, will the Armenians be able to definitively bury their victims and look resolutely to the future. "A tragic story told with sensitivity and beauty. An amazing book." Ceci, Goodreads. «A beautiful, fine narrative about one of the first atrocities of the 20th century. Delicate treatise on this tragic historical event narrated from a fiction with capricious detail, to the personal experience of an expatriate, to the physical and spiritual restlessness of the Armenian people. Highly recommended". Maria Reyero, Goodreads. "Reading The Armenian Testament is not only a pleasure, it is also a lesson from a forgotten history that was one of the great injustices of the 20th century." D. Martínez, Diario de Almería.

The Dynamics of Sunni-Shia Relationships

Author : Sabrina Mervin
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849042179
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Sunni-Shia Relationships written by Sabrina Mervin and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the immense changes of the 2011 'Arab Spring', it was Sunni-Shia sectarian rivalry that preoccupied most political analyses of the Middle East. This book presents wide-ranging and up-to-date research that sheds light on the political, sociological and ideological processes that are affecting the dynamics within the Shia and Sunni worlds.