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Author	Negar Mottahedeh
Title of item	Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation
Subtitle of item	Qurrat al-'Ayn's Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Bábís
Volume	18:2
Pages	38-50
Parent publication	Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Date of this edition	1998
Language	English
Permission	author
Posted	1999 by Jonah Winters
Proofread	2010-07-27 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.org/mottahedeh_mutilated_body_nations
Abstract	A Freudian interpretation of the extreme antipathy underlying common Iranian opposition to the Babis/Bahá'ís as being disruptive symbols of destabilizing modernism, with the stories of Qurratu'l-'Ayn's public unveiling a central element.
Notes	Presented at the Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies Conference, University of California at Berkeley, April 1997. See also another version of this paper, Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Bábí Poetess Qurrat al-'Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht.
Tags	Babi history; Conference of Badasht; Dawn-Breakers (book); Equality; Tahirih; Veils; Women
Locations	Badasht; Iran (documents)
Page views	18361 hits since 1999
Edit quality	high: carefully proofread and edited
Format quality	high: well formatted
Last edited	2022-01-24 07:53 EDT. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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