< The Martyrs = Martyrs > Of Karbala : Shi'i Symbols And Rituals In Modern Iran
\ Kamran Scot Aghaie
Seattle
: University of Washington Press
, 2004
xvi, 200 p.
: col. ill., maps
Index
A brief historical background of Shi'ism and Moharram -- The Qajar elites and religious patronage (1796-1925) -- Qajar society and religious culture : Tehran as a case study -- The Pahlavi regime and the emergence of secular modernism (1925-1979) -- Religious rituals, society and politics during the Pahlavi period -- Hoseyn "the prince of martyrs" -- Fatemeh, Zeynab, and emerging discourses on gender -- The Islamic republic