Amina Tawasil
Biographic Data
| ID | 163372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amina Tawasil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tawasil |
| SIGNATURE | TAWASIL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paths Made by Walking
Reading as Practice
The Iranian howzevi (seminarian) have been key to the Islamic regime's development. This paper takes as its critical focus the branding of the howzevi as the unenlightened for their support of the regime. I take de Certeau's reading as poaching to look at how life scripts or ideologies failed to work through women's bodies. Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork, I describe how they unsettled ideologies in their reading of de Maupassant's "Clair …
Reports
The Howzevi (Seminarian) Women in Iran
Towards the Ideal Revolutionary Shi’i Woman
The ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Iran reveals how some religious conservative howzevi (seminarian) women understand marriage and motherhood as constitutive of idealized womanhood. For them, the pursuit of marriage and motherhood simultaneously enables their participation in the highest levels of Islamic education and their religious and political authority in Iran. Such aspirations imposed both regulatory and emancipatory effects on the …
The Howzevi (Seminarian) Women in Iran
Towards the Ideal Revolutionary Shi’i Woman
The ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Iran reveals how some religious conservative howzevi (seminarian) women understand marriage and motherhood as constitutive of idealized womanhood. For them, the pursuit of marriage and motherhood simultaneously enables their participation in the highest levels of Islamic education and their religious and political authority in Iran. Such aspirations imposed both regulatory and emancipatory effects on the …
The Howzevi (Seminarian) Women in Iran
Towards the Ideal Revolutionary Shi’i Woman
The ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Iran reveals how some religious conservative howzevi (seminarian) women understand marriage and motherhood as constitutive of idealized womanhood. For them, the pursuit of marriage and motherhood simultaneously enables their participation in the highest levels of Islamic education and their religious and political authority in Iran. Such aspirations imposed both regulatory and emancipatory effects on the …
Reports
Reading as Practice
The Iranian howzevi (seminarian) have been key to the Islamic regime's development. This paper takes as its critical focus the branding of the howzevi as the unenlightened for their support of the regime. I take de Certeau's reading as poaching to look at how life scripts or ideologies failed to work through women's bodies. Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork, I describe how they unsettled ideologies in their reading of de Maupassant's "Clair …
Paths Made by Walking
Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology (2 works)