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Illustrations | |
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Note on Transcription | |
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Calendars | |
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Chronology of Significant Dynasties | |
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Preface: Notes Toward Anthropology as Cultural Critique | |
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Oral Life Worlds | |
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Shi'ite Socialization in Pahlavi Iran: Autobiographical Sondages in a Postmodern World | |
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Scenes of a Village Childhood | |
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Scenes of an Urban Childhood: Class Distinctions | |
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Secondary School, Sexual Purity, and Marriage | |
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Tehran: Ideological Crucible | |
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Lawrence, Kansas | |
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Texts, Con-texts, and Pre-texts | |
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Qur'anic Dialogics: Islamic Poetics and Politics for Muslims and for Us | |
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Con-texts to Dialogue | |
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Dialogue and Presence | |
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Iqra! ("Recite!"): The Sounddance, the Oral, Performative Qur'an | |
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The Graphics of Absence | |
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Guides through the Woid: Plain Meaning, Prolepsis, the Knowledgeable, the Hadith Game | |
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The Politics of Interpretation | |
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Exposing the Unbewised: The Hadith Game, [Blind] Followership, Rule by Faqih/Amir, and Islamic Economics | |
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Conclusion: Dialogue, Ethics, Politics | |
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Fear of Differance: The Hajj "Rodeo" | |
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Hajj Pretexts and Re(rites): Ethics and Politics in the Play of Nationalism, Class, and Gender | |
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Hajj as Primal Scene | |
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The 1968 Hajj, the Rise of Islamic Ideology, and Renewable Shi'ism | |
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Conclusion: Giving Hagar Voice | |
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Social Change and the Mirrors of Tradition: Baha'is of Yazd | |
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Introduction | |
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Yazd: Mirrors of Diversity | |
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Nurullah Akhtar-Khavari | |
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Shifting Ritual Grounds (To Houston) | |
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Diasporas: Re-membering and Re-creating | |
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Exiles and Immigrants, Authenticity and Identity | |
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Prologue: Negotiating Death and Marriage in a Loose Social Structure | |
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A Month among the Believers: Ramadan in Houston, 1984 | |
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Voices of Hagar: An African-American Muslim Woman Talks to an Iranian Muslim Man | |
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Visual Projections | |
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Concluding Notes: Autographically Changing Iran--Minor Media and Bicultural Graphics | |
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Emergent Ethnographic Subjects | |
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Minor Media as Reminders of the Postmodern Condition: Posters, Cartoons, Emblems | |
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Truth in Tulips: Emblems, Arabesque Design, Allusive Graphics | |
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Revolutionary Operatics and Cartoons for Export | |
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Revolutionary Posters and Cultural Intereferences | |
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Hypertextual Feints and Constraints | |
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Postscriptural Parergon: Bombay Talkies, the Word and the World: Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses | |
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They Shoot Novelists Don't They? | |
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Beyond the Text | |
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Qur'anic Sources and A-maze-ments | |
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Reading the Novel: Highjacked Souls | |
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Literature to Think With | |
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Alternative Traditional Orderings of the Qur'an | |
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The Ring, Octagon, or Eight Propositions of Political Wisdom | |
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The Imam's Blasphemystic Ghazal | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |