عنوان

Red-Light Tehran: Prostitution, Intimately Public Islam, and the Rule of the Sovereign, 1910-1980

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انگلیسی

Red-Light Tehran: Prostitution, Intimately Public Islam, and the Rule of the Sovereign, 1910-1980

[Thesis]

Jairan Gahan

Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad

University of Toronto (Canada)

2017

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Committee members: Hemmasi, Farzaneh; Mittermaier, Amira; Moumtaz, Nada; Osanloo, Arzoo

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-53573-0

Ph.D.

Religion

University of Toronto (Canada)

2017

This dissertation investigates the urban life of the red-light district of Tehran, Shahr-i naw, from its inception in the early twentieth century to its erasure after the Islamic Revolution in 1980. "Red-light Tehran" broadens the scope of the literature on modern Islam to the arena of state sovereignty and the governance of precarious subjects. Shahr-i naw is an unlikely place to explore Islam. However, beginning in the early twentieth century in Tehran, the increasingly visible business of urban prostitution and street solicitation, perceived as an unhygienic, immoral and un-Islamic practice, became a site of contestation for larger debates about the role of Islam, in the domain of public. The district serves as a central site for inquiries about the shifting role of Islam in the governance of subjects that were never fully integrated into the political system of the modern post-constitutional state. This exploration of the history of the district remaps the force of religion in Tehran, a city that is so often glossed as a case of state-oriented top-down secularization and subsequent Islamization.

Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

Social sciences;Historical anthropology;Iran;Modern Islam;Publics;State sovereignty;Urban inequality

Liu, Xuetan

Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad

Religion

University of Toronto (Canada)

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[Thesis]

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