Zainab's traffic : moving saints, selves, and others across borders /
"What is the value-religious, political, economic, or altogether social-of getting on a bus in Tehran for its travelers who embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey to reach the Sayyida Zainab Shrine outside Damascus across two international borders? Under what material conditions can such value...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Of ways and traffic : matriarchs of a prophetic patriliny
- Zainab's traffic : spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia
- Parastoo's pathways and observant participation
- Crafting patronage : genealogy as traffic across generations
- Banu's pathways and familial (de)attachments
- Arrested mobilities and fugitive markets : leaks of economy and bureaucracy beneath a fig tree
- Muhsin's pathways, or mitigating sanctions with tobacco seats
- Bordering Ziyārat : Kaçak coordinates of territory and palimpsests of sovereignty
- Karam and Sahand's pathways, and a Khayyam quatrain on breath
- Conclusion.