Molla Nasreddin
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A01=Janet Afary
A01=Kamran Afary
anti-colonial Muslim discourse
Author_Janet Afary
Author_Kamran Afary
Azerbaijani history
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folklore
satire
the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Transcaucasia
trickster tales
tricksters
visual art
women's history
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- ISBN 9781474499507
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1906, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the tales of the Middle Eastern trickster Nasreddin to construct a progressive anti-colonial discourse with a strong emphasis on social, political and religious reform. Using folklore, visual art and satire, their periodical Moll? Nasreddin which had full-page lithographic cartoons in colour, reached tens of thousands of people across the Muslim world, from Iran and Turkey, to India and Egypt, impacting the thinking of a generation. The founder of the periodical was Jalil Mamedqolizadeh, an Azerbaijani educator and playwright. As a transnational and social democratic publication, Moll? Nasreddin saw itself as a mouthpiece for other persecuted Muslim populations and colonised peoples around the globe. This book looks at the milieu in which the periodical was born, the manner through which the journal recast the trickster trope for its audience, and the influence of European graphic artists on its cartoons and illustrations.
Janet Afary is Mellichamp Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies-British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize), Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Kevin B. Anderson) (University of Chicago Press, 2005) (Winner of Latifeh Yarshater Award: Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies-Persian Heritage Foundation) and The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1996). Kamran Afary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is co-editor (with A. Marianne Fritz,) of Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing: More than Words (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2020) and co-author (with Shirazi, Ziba) of Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2020).
