The Women of Karbala : Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi’i Islam 9780292709591

The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam 9780292796577

Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family

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The Tragedy of Karbala

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Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience 9781782382041

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance

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Iraqi women in Denmark: Ritual performance and belonging in everyday life 9781526102768

An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen

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Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam 9780748626298

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617333');This first full-length study of women and the Fatimids is a

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Reclaiming Karbala: Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims [1 ed.] 9780367459703, 9781032195438, 9781003259688

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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate 9780300258172

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneeri

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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate 9780300162714

Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and

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The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual 069122210X, 9780691222103

This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces c

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Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices 9780748645510

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations Explores the impact of the ethnograph

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