2023
DOI: 10.32920/22962308
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Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran

Abstract: <p>Forced branding, tattooing, and bodily inscriptions were linked to a complex intersection of meanings and uses in nineteenth-century Iran. Drawing on insights from studies of bodily inscriptions in other world historical contexts, this paper discusses branding as a marker of ownership, both of human slaves and of animals; Islamic attitudes toward bodily inscription and its symbolic significance in the afterlife; and associations between branding and human or divine love in Persian poetry. From this se… Show more

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