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Introduction © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/187471611X568258 Journal of Persianate Studies 4 (2011) 4-11 brill.nl/jps Introduction Julia Clancy-Smith The University of Arizona This special issue of the journal began life as a 2009 MESA panel which was organized by Alyssa Gabbay and attracted a large audience and sparked a wide- ranging, spirited discussion. “Fathers and Daughters in Islam” raise a number of intersecting issues that have only recently been addressed, in part because of the tenacity of unexamined assumptions. But before we can even grapple with these assumptions, the topic suggests at least three monolithic entities— fathers, daughters, and Islam—that evoke the most unrepentant Orientalism. Moreover, the father-daughter dyad can not be severed from other socio- affective matrices, whether strictly kin-based or not: mothers, siblings, chil- dren, cousins, aunts, uncles, step-fathers or the dreaded mother-in-law and in dynastic systems, from the fearsome ambitions of high office-holders, who might also be husbands, and therefore sons-in-law. And we should also con- sider retainers, court favorites, faithful servants and neighbors—all the people who inhabited domestic spaces and influenced the daily play of family life and kin politics that at times ultimately shaped the dynamics of state and empire. Now what http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Persianate Studies Brill

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Brill
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1874-7094
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1874-7167
DOI
10.1163/187471611X568258
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/187471611X568258 Journal of Persianate Studies 4 (2011) 4-11 brill.nl/jps Introduction Julia Clancy-Smith The University of Arizona This special issue of the journal began life as a 2009 MESA panel which was organized by Alyssa Gabbay and attracted a large audience and sparked a wide- ranging, spirited discussion. “Fathers and Daughters in Islam” raise a number of intersecting issues that have only recently been addressed, in part because of the tenacity of unexamined assumptions. But before we can even grapple with these assumptions, the topic suggests at least three monolithic entities— fathers, daughters, and Islam—that evoke the most unrepentant Orientalism. Moreover, the father-daughter dyad can not be severed from other socio- affective matrices, whether strictly kin-based or not: mothers, siblings, chil- dren, cousins, aunts, uncles, step-fathers or the dreaded mother-in-law and in dynastic systems, from the fearsome ambitions of high office-holders, who might also be husbands, and therefore sons-in-law. And we should also con- sider retainers, court favorites, faithful servants and neighbors—all the people who inhabited domestic spaces and influenced the daily play of family life and kin politics that at times ultimately shaped the dynamics of state and empire. Now what

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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