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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 1 9Each chapter is structured as a question-and-answer interview devoted to asingle person and is prefaced with a basic anthropological description of thatperson’s life.M i r-Hosseini, Ziba. 1999. Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contempora ry Iran. Princeton: Princeton University Press.This book is the most complete account of the debates raging over themeaning and social rights and abilities of women in Iran today. The authoruses both copious anthropological fieldwork data and textual sources to supporther analyses.Mottahedeh, Roy. 1985. The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran.New York: Pantheon Books.This work, now a classic text on the rise of Shi’ite clerics in the modern period,is written in the form of a biographical novel about a fictitious clericalstudent in Qom. All the important thinkers and events of the modern periodare mentioned in this beautifully written and very informative text.Yaghmaian, Behzad. 2002. Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent,Defiance, and New Movements for Rights. Albany: State University of NewYork Press.In readable and poignant prose, Yaghmaian offers the most complete accountof the growing current of social movements for government reform.He employs interviews, personal ethnographic experience, television, newspapers,magazines, and official government documents to paint a compellingpicture of the tremendous groundswell of opposition to the currentr e g i m e .Internet ResourcesThe government of the Islamic Republic of Iran maintains a number of English-languageWeb sites. For example, news and information on culture,tourism, foreign policy, and consular affairs can be found at http://www. s a l a miran.org. Information in English on the Iranian president can be found ath t t p : / / w w w. p r e s i d e n t . i r. Beyond these official government materials, there arealso a number of independent Iranian Muslim Web sites accessible in English.For example, a site containing lectures and academic papers of Abdol KarimSoroush can be found at http://www.seraj.org. There are also less-academicsites, such as the “cyber tea house” of Mashhad (at http://www. f a r s i n e t . c o m /mashhad/), which contains images of this city as well as information on pilgrimagesthere and other cultural interests.