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Abstract
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Islam has come to be viewed by many around the world, especially in the West, as a terrorist religion that calls only for Jihad and the oppression of those who are different. Many scholars started to develop an interest in the status of different groups of people living in societies ruled by Islamist regimes, and among these groups are women. The present study is an attempt to investigate the status of women in two Islamist societies, namely postrevolutionary Iran and Taliban’s Afghanistan. For the purpose, two novels set in these societies are analyzed in this study. The first is Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), which is set in postrevolutionary Iran, and the second is Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), which is set in Taliban’s Afghanistan. A corpus-based analysis of both novels is done through Halliday’s transitivity theory in an attempt to investigate the parties capable of taking action and the parties who are affected by this action. The analysis aims to reveal how both authors try to represent women in their respective societies as oppressed and incapable of taking action under Islamist rule.