Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. Muslim…
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Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action.
Niloofar Haeri follows them in their daily lives as they engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi, illuminating a long-standing mutual inspiration between prayer and poetry. 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. She recounts how different forms of prayer may transform into dialogues with God, and, in turn, Haeri
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