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BL
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1092263
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bc101489
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English
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| Main Entry
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Kamalkhani, Zahra.
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| Title & Author
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Women's Islam : : religious practice among women in today's Iran /\ Zahra Kamalkhani.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Kegan Paul International,, 1998.
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| Page. NO
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vii, 203 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0710305990
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: 9780710305992
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Female religious meeting: rowżeh-e zanāneh -- Ritual exchanges and morality -- The Female preacher -- The Concept of martyrs and its symbolic application -- The Passage of the dead -- Women making the pilgrimage -- Reproduction of the Islamic social order and disorder -- Hejāb: Islamic modesy and veiling -- Family management in the context of change -- Conclusion: women, Islam, and ritual.
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| Abstract
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Kamalkhani shows that although Iranian women may not play a leading role in the mosque, they do play an important religious role in other complex forms of organisation, such as the social network of the home and the exclusive female religious houses.
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Women in Islam-- Iran.
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Muslim women-- Religious life-- Iran.
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Women-- Iran-- Social conditions.
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Femmes dans l'islam-- Iran.
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Musulmanes-- Iran-- Vie religieuse.
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Femmes-- Iran-- Conditions sociales.
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11.84 Islam: other.
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71.33 women (sociology)
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71.57 immaterial culture (sociology)
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Muslim women-- Religious life.
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Social conditions
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Women in Islam.
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Women-- Social conditions.
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Muslimin
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Religionsausübung
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Islam
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Frau
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Islam.
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Vrouwen.
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Geloofsleven.
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Priesteressen.
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Vrouwenorganisaties.
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Muslimin.
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Religionsausübung.
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Frau.
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Islam.
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Iran, Social conditions.
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Iran, Conditions sociales.
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Iran.
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Iran
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Iran.
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| Dewey Classification
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297/.082/0955
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| LC Classification
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BP173.4.K36 1998
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| NLM classification
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11.84bcl
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71.33bcl
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71.57bcl
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