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Author Rahimi, Babak

Title Theater state and the formation of early modern public sphere in Iran : studies on Safavid Muharram rituals, 1590-1641 CE / Babak Rahimi
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages)
Series Iran studies, 1569-7401 ; v. 5
Iran studies ; v. 5.
Contents pt. 1. The Carnivalesque Paradigm : Muharram as Transgression -- The Carnivalesque Public : Beyond Habermas -- pt. 2. The Safavids in the Transcultural Context -- A History of (Safavid) Muharram Rituals -- Necro-Public and the Safavid Ritual Theater State : City, Social Death, and Power -- Spaces of Misrule : The Carnivalesque Safavid Isfahani Muharram -- Conclusion: The Isfahani Public Sphere
Summary This first systematic study of a wide range of Persian and European archival and primary sources, analyzes how the Muharram rituals changed from being an orginally devotional practice to public events of political significance, setting the stage for the emergence of the early modern Iranian public sphere in the Safavid period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Political culture -- Iran -- Iṣfahān -- History -- 17th century
Political customs and rites -- Iran -- Iṣfahān -- History -- 17th century
Tenth of Muḥarram.
Theater -- Political aspects -- Iran -- Iṣfahān -- History -- 17th century
Fasts and feasts -- Iran -- Iṣfahān
Group identity -- Iran -- Iṣfahān -- History -- 17th century
City and town life -- Iran -- Iṣfahān -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
City and town life
Fasts and feasts
Group identity
Manners and customs
Political culture
Political customs and rites
Politics and government
Ṣafavid Dynasty (Iran)
Tenth of Muḥarram
Theater -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Iṣfahān (Iran) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
Iṣfahān (Iran) -- Politics and government -- 17th century
Iran -- History -- Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007363
Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067899
Subject Iran
Iran -- Iṣfahān
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004207562
9789004207561