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Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity
and Tradition
by Michael M.J. Fischer
University of Wisconsin Press, 2002
Part 1: Oral Life Worlds
1. Shi'ite Socialization in Pahlavi Iran: Autobiographical Sondages in a Postmodern World
Scenes of a Village Childhood
Scenes of an Urban Childhood: Class Distinctions
Secondary School, Sexual Purity, and Marriage
Tehran: Ideological Crucible
Lawrence, Kansas
Part 2: Texts, Con-texts, and Pre-texts
2. Qur'anic Dialogics: Islamic Poetics and Politics for Muslims and for Us
Con-texts to Dialogue
Dialogue and Presence
The Graphics of Absence
The Politics of Interpretation
Conclusion: Dialogue, Ethics, Politics
3. Fear of Differance: The Hajj "Rodeo"
Hajj Pretexts and Re(rites): Ethics and Politics in the Play of Nationalism, Class and Gender
Hajj as Primal Scene
The 1968 Hajj, the Rise of Islamic Ideology, and Renewable Shi'ism
Conclusion: Giving Hagar Voice
4. Social Change and the Mirrors of Tradition: Baha'is of Yazd
Introduction
Yazd: Mirrors of Diversity
Nurullah Akhtar-Khavari
Part 3: Shifting Ritual Grounds (To Houston)
5. Diasporas: Re-membering and Re-creating
Exiles and Immigrants, Authenticity and Identity
Prologue: Negotiating Death and Marriage in a Loose Social Structure
A Month among the Believers: Ramadam in Houston
Voices of Hagar: An African-American Muslim Woman Talks to an Iranian Muslim Man
Part 4: Visual Projections
6. Concluding Notes: Autographically Changing Iran - Minor Media and Bicultural Graphics
Emergent Ethnographic Subjects
Minor Media as Reminders of the Postmodern Condition: Posters, Cartoons, Emblems
Truth in Tulips: Emblems, Arabesque Design, Allusive Graphics
Revolutionary Operatics and Cartoons for Export
Revolutionary Posters and Cultural Interferences
Hypertextual Feints and Constraints
7. Postscriptural Parergon: Bombay Talkies, the Word and the World: Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses
They Shoot Novelists Don't They?
Beyong the Text
Qur'anic Sources and A-maze-ments
Reading the Novel: Highjacked Souls
Literature to Think With
Appendix 1. Alternative Traditional Orderings of the Qur'an
Appendix 2. The Ring, Octagon, or Eight Propositions of Political Wisdom
Appendix 3. The Imam's Blasphemystic Ghazal