Theater state and the formation of early modern public sphere in Iran
Subtitle: studies on Safavid Muharram rituals, 1590-1641 CE
By: by Babak Rahimi
Series: Iran studies -- v. 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789004209794
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Political culture; Theater; Tenth of Muḥarram; Political customs and rites; Fasts and feasts; Group identity; City and town life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Carnivalesque Paradigm : Muharram as Transgression; title: The Carnivalesque Public : Beyond Habermas; title: pt. 2. The Safavids in the Transcultural Context; title: A History of (Safavid) Muharram Rituals; title: Necro-Public and the Safavid Ritual Theater State : City, Social Death, and Power; title: Spaces of Misrule : The Carnivalesque Safavid Isfahani Muharram; title: Conclusion: The Isfahani Public Sphere.