TY - BOOK ID - 85569370 TI - Say what your longing heart desires : women, prayer, and poetry in Iran PY - 2020 SN - 9781503601772 1503601773 9781503614246 1503614247 1503614255 PB - Stanford, California Stanford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Muslim women KW - Persian poetry KW - Prayer KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:39A77 KW - Prayer (Islam) KW - Persian literature KW - Islamic women KW - Women, Muslim KW - Women KW - Intellectual life KW - Religious life KW - Appreciation KW - Islam KW - Kunst, habitat, materiƫle cultuur en ontspanning KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten KW - Muslimahs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85569370 AB - "Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned questions of what it means to be a true Muslim into a matter of public debate, taken up widely outside the exclusive realm of male clerics and intellectuals. "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires" offers an elegant ethnography of these debates among a group of educated, middle-class women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam. Niloofar Haeri follows them in their daily lives as they engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Hafiz and Saadi, illuminating a long-standing mutual inspiration between prayer and poetry. She recounts how different forms of prayer may transform into dialogues with God, and, in turn, the ways in which believers draw on prayer and ritual acts as the emotional and intellectual material with which they think, deliberate, and debate"-- ER -