Women's Religious Seminaries in Iran

The implementation of the sharicah and the institutionalization of gender inequality in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution have provoked general discontent among women and triggered their mobilization against segregation laws. As a response to their demands, Islamist women parliamentarians have been forced to prepare motions to defend more adequately women's needs and rights in both the private sphere of the family and the public sphere, maintaining that the teachings of Islam are not respected

Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman – IISMM

Jean-Philippe Bras, professeur à l’Université de Rouen Les transformations du droit dans le monde musulman Il s’agissait pour cette première année de séminaire de faire un tour d’horizon des interrogations que suscite le droit islamique dans ses manifestations passées et contemporaines, en identifiant quelques questionnements clés, autour de la configuration des systèmes juridiques, de la dynamique et de la statique du droit, de ses contextes de mise en œuvre. C’était aussi l’occasion d’un pr..

narrating traditional iranian carpet merchants

Iranian carpet merchants developed a collective identitary narrative to enhance their capital creation in the social field of the German market, the field of Iranian foreign trade, and transnational bazari networks. This chapter goes beyond the practicalities of juggling resources across social fields: it explains the motivation behind this agency. Building on David Graeber's anthropology of value, as well as on studies about identity marketing and ethnic entrepreneurship, I show how the merchants' resources were evaluated between the 1950s and today to explain by which systems of value these social fields were shaped. From the confrontation between changing systems of value emerges Iranian carpet merchants' potential to increase the efficiency of their capital creation by—collectively—trying to redefine the meaning of their resources