Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran’s Post-War Politics
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Iran
Iran-Iraq war (1980-88)
Iranian history
Iranian studies
martyrdom
memorial culture
memorialisation
mourning
relics
Shi'i materiality
war commemoration
women's studies
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- ISBN 9781399536783
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How would a switch from the inner to the outer, from the inwardness to the surface, from the habitus to the haptic alter our anthropological thinking about Islam? How do micro matters permeate the terrain of Shiʿi women’s religious practice and Iran’s contemporary politics? Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran's Post-War Politics explores the haptic relations that connect mothers and wives of the fallen soldiers of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) to their sons and husbands as martyrs. They have played a crucial role in the legitimation discourse of the Iranian state and transformed the very grounds on which religious nationalist and statist projects can be envisioned and practiced. Mourning mothers of martyrs covered in black veils have not only been integrated into a state-revering cult, but have incorporated their conduct into state’s apparatus. This book takes the reader on a journey from women’s dreamworld to their practices of intercession in cemeteries and former battlefields to show material and affective exposures in crafting relics.
Sana Chavoshian is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin and Associate Researcher at the Centre for Advance Studies “Multiple Secularities: Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” in Leipzig University.
