Shahla Haeri

Biographic Data

ID756292
NAMEShahla Haeri
GIVEN NAMESShahla
FAMILY NAMEHaeri
SIGNATUREHAERI S
AFFILIATIONSBoston University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Female Leaders Creating Stepping Ladders: Exercising Strategic Agency in Religiously Affiliated Universities of Indonesia and the USA

    Open AccessAtun Wardatun, Shahla Haeri et al.ARTICLEAl-Ahwal: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga…2023

    This article aims to draw on the lessons and experiences of female leaders for what approaches should be nurtured and adopted in breaking the ‘glass ceilings.’ This research examines pathways to female leadership and public acceptance of their roles. The article offers strategies for the next generation of emerging female leaders, drawing from narratives of five female leaders in five religiously affiliated universities in Indonesia and three in …

  • The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender

    Open AccessShahla HaeriBOOKUnforgettable Queens of Islam2020

    In this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political systems of their times. Their stories illuminate the complex and challenging imperatives of dynastic succession, electoral competition and the stunning success they achieved in medieval Yemen and India, and modern Pakistan and Indonesia. The written history of Islam and the Muslim world is overwhel…

  • Unforgettable Queens of Islam

    Shahla HaeriBOOKUnforgettable Queens of Islam2020

  • In the Garden of the Sexes: Of Men, Women, Gaze, and Hair

    Open AccessShahla HaeriOTHERA Companion to the Anthropology…2015

  • Sindawi, Khalid: Temporary Marriage in Sunni and Shiʿite Islam. A Comparative Study

    Shahla HaeriARTICLEAnthropos2015

    Anthropos , Seite 277 - 279

  • Reports: Publications, Films, and Conferences

    Open AccessShahla Haeri, Sophie Accolas et al.ARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2011

    PUBLICATIONS Nadjmabadi, Shahnaz R. (ed.) (2009), Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology: Past and Present Perspectives (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books). viii + 278 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-626-9. FILMS Kamal, Mariam Nabil (2009), Le Bruit des pas, Afghanistan, vidéo couleur, 24 minutes, Ateliers Varan, avec le soutien des Service culturel de l’Ambassade de France, du Centre culturel français, du Goethe Institut et la Direction des Relations Inter…

  • Sacred Canopy: Love and Sex under the Veil

    Open AccessShahla HaeriARTICLEIranian Studies2009

    In this article I describe what I see as the subliminal messages of desire and intimacy in the following Iranian movies: Gabbeh (1995), The Blue Scarf (1994), May Lady (1997), and Born in the Month of Mihr (2000). I argue that although the Islamic legal discourse has reasserted itself after the revolution of 1979 and appears to have become dominant, the “erotic” discourse that is ever so subtly embedded in Persian poetry and popular culture is al…

  • The Ladies Room by Mahnaz Afzali, Iranian Journey by Maysoon Pachachi, Women Like Us by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri

    Shahla HaeriARTICLEJournal of Middle East Women s…2005

    Book Review| July 01 2005 The Ladies Room by Mahnaz Afzali, Iranian Journey by Maysoon Pachachi, Women Like Us by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri The Ladies Room (Afzali, Mahnaz) 2003, 55 minutesIranian Journey (Pachachi, Maysoon) 2003, 54 minutesWomen Like Us (Sadegh-Vaziri, Persheng) 2003, 60 minutes Shahla Haeri Shahla Haeri Department of Anthropology, Boston University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East W…

  • Subliminal Sex in Iranian Cinema

    Open AccessShahla HaeriARTICLEAnthropology News2001

  • A Persian Requiem; Simin Daneshvar; Translated by Roxane Zand

    Open AccessShahla HaeriARTICLEDigest of Middle East Studies1993

  • Law of Desire. Temporary Marriage in Iran

    Werner Ende, Shahla HaeriARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1993

  • Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Iran

    Mandana Hendessi, Shahla HaeriARTICLEFeminist Review1991

    Part 1 Law as imposed: marriage as contract permanent marriage - Nikah temporary marriage - Mut'a. Part 2 Law as local knowledge: the power of ambiguity cultural improvisations on the theme of tempoarary marriage. Part 3 Law as perceived: women's life stories men's interviews

  • Power of Ambiguity: Cultural Improvisations on the Theme of Temporary Marriage

    Open AccessShahla HaeriARTICLEIranian Studies1986Cited by: 5References: 3

    Law...is local knowledge; local not just as to place, time, class, and variety of issues, but as to accent--vernacular characterizations of what happens connected to vernacular imaginings of what can. The objective of this paper is to describe cultural improvisations on the theme of temporary marriage, mut'a (sigheh in colloquial Persian) in Iran; I wish to bring to light the relationship between the law of the institution of temporary marriage, …