An intimate prayer with the dead.
This article explores how listening to monājāt (Islamic sung prayer) creates dynamic and unsettling imaginative spaces for Amir—a paraplegic veteran of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War—to be‐with Sohrab, his comrade killed in combat. Amir, who both witnessed Sohrab's tragic death and endured severe physi...
| Published in: | Anthropology & Humanism Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 127 - 142 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2024
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