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