« Le Paradis de Zahra » : le grand cimetière de Téhéran entre pratiques populaires et rationalité étatique

Located south of Tehran, the Behesht Zahra Cemetery (Zahra Paradise), covers 700 hectares. It is the largest cemetery in Iran. With an average of 200 funerals per day the Cemetery requires efficient funeral management services. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the deadly war against Iraq (1980-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sepideh Parsapajouh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2019-12-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/13814