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Mollā Nasreddin and the creative Cauldron of Transcaucasia / Afary, Janet; Afary, Kamran

Afary, Janet	Journal Article
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In the early 20th century, a group of artists and intellectuals in Transcaucasia reinterpreted a Middle Eastern trickster figure to construct a reformist and anti-colonial Muslim discourse with a strong emphasis on social and political reforms. Using folklore, visual art, and satire, their periodical Mollā Nasreddin reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world, impacting the thinking of a generation.

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Mollā Nasreddin

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Sexual economy of the Islamic Republic / Afary, Janet

Afary, Janet	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article examines the gender and sexual policies of the Islamic Republic and their ramifications. It argues that the policies of the Islamist government cannot easily be categorized as "puritanical" or "moralistic." Rather we can argue that various factions within the state actively deployed a new "sexual economy" for the population. Sometimes, the Islamist state privileged patriarchal interpretations of gender norms over more modern ones. At other times, it adopted modern projects such as family planning alongside a discourse that presented them as practices rooted in traditional Islam. In all cases, the state used modern institutions to disseminate and enforce these practices.

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Iran ; Birth Control ; Sexual Policy ; Sexual Regulations ; Sexual Prohibitations

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