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Overview"What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran for its travelers who embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey to reach the Sayyida Zainab Shrine outside Damascus across two international borders? Under what material conditions can such values be established, reassessed, or transgressed, and by whom? Zainab's Traffic provides answers to these questions alongside the socially embedded—and spatially generative—encounters of ritual, mobility, desire, genealogy, and patronage along the route. Whether it is through the study of the spatial politics of saint veneration in Islam, analysis of cross-border gold trade and sanctions, or examination of pilgrims' desire for Syrian lingerie accompanying their pleas with the saint in marital matters, the book develops the idea of visitation as a ritual of mobility across geography, history, and category. Iranian visitors' experiences on the road to Sayyida Zainab—emerging out of a self-described ""poverty of mobility""—demonstrate the utility of a more capacious anthropological understanding of ritual. Rather than thinking of ritual as a scripturally canonized manual for pious self-cultivation, Zainab's Traffic approaches ziyarat as a traffic of pilgrims, goods, and ideas across Iran, Turkey, and Syria." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emrah YildizPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 16 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780520379831ISBN 10: 0520379837 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 07 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction [Of Ways and Traffic: Matriarchs of a Prophetic Patriliny] 1 • Zainab’s Traffic: Spatial Lives of an Islamic Ritual across Southwest Asia [Parastoo’s Pathways and Observant Participation] 2 • Crafting Patronage: Genealogy as Traffic across Generations [Banu’s Pathways and Familial (De)Attachments] 3 • Arrested Mobilities and Fugitive Markets beneath a Fig Tree [Muhsin’s Pathways, or Mitigating Sanctions with Tobacco Seats] 4 • Bordering Ziyarat: Kaçak Coordinates of Territory [Karam and Sahand’s Pathways, and a Khayyam Quatrain on Breath] Conclusion Epilogue Notes References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationEmrah Yıldız is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Middle East and North African Studies at Northwestern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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