Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.

Ta�ziyeh : a twist of history in everyday life / Negar Mottahedeh -- The gender dynamics of Moharram symbols and rituals in the latter years of Qajar rule / Kamran Scot Aghaie -- "Oh, my heart is sad. it is Moharram, and the moth of Zaynab" : the role of aesthetics and women's mourning ceremonies in Shiraz / Ingvild Flaskerud -- The daughters of Karbala : images of women in popular Shi�i culture in Iran / Faegheh Shirazi -- Iconography of the women of Karbala : tiles, murals, stamps, and posters / Peter J. Chelkowski -- Sakineh, the narrator of Karbala : an ethnographic description of a women's Majles ritual in Pakistan / Shemeem Burney Abbas -- Sayyedeh Zaynab : the conqueror of Damascus and beyond / Syed Akbar Hyder -- Gender and Moharram rituals in an Isma�ili sect of South Asian Muslims / Rehana Ghadially -- Women of Karbala moving to America : Shi'i rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Women's religious rituals in Iraq / Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Basima Q. Bezirgan -- From mourning to activism : Sayyedeh Zaynad, Lebanese Shi�i women, and the transformation of Ashura.

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Twelve ethnographic essays that explore women's roles in the rituals that commemorate the Battle of Karbala, the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam.

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