Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran, Revised Edition by Shahla Haeri

Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran, Revised Edition

Shahla Haeri

312 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Law of Desire explores an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropologist, Haeri describes the concept of a t...

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