Title: Women's Islam : religious practice among women in today's Iran /
Authors: Kamalkhani, Zahra.
Publisher: Kegan Paul International,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Women in Islam Iran.; Muslim women Religious life Iran.; Women Iran Social conditions.; Iran Social conditions.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.