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The People's Islam in Iran: The Ethno-Religious Dimension

The People's Islam in Iran: The Ethno-Religious Dimension

Machlis, Elisheva

Hardcover

Series: Iranian Studies

IslamGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 13, 2027

ISBN10: 1041010729
ISBN13: 9781041010722
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 13 2027
Pages: 270
Language: English

The People's Islam in Iran: The Ethno-Religious Dimension offers a bottom-up examination of religious authority in contemporary Iran, exploring how popular religious actors negotiate, reproduce, and challenge the formal structures of the Islamic Republic.

Focusing on eulogists (Maddāḥān) and Friday Prayer leaders (Emām-e Jomʿeh), this book examines the relationship between vernacular religious practices, state institutions, and Iran's diverse ethno-cultural landscape. It considers the central role of Maddāḥān in the ʿĀshurāʾ commemorations of Imam Ḥusayn's martyrdom alongside the function of Friday Prayers as an instrument of Islamic propagation under the Islamic Republic. Particular attention is given to the often-overlooked role of ethnicity and the ways religious actors from different backgrounds create new cultural and religious fusions. Drawing on audiovisual material from YouTube and the Iranian platform Aparat, the study also demonstrates how new media document, circulate, and extend popular religious practices beyond their immediate geographical and social settings. In doing so, the book presents religious authority in Iran as a dynamic process of negotiation between popular voices, local identities, and institutional power.

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