The Iranian Metaphysicals : Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny /
Doostdar, Alireza
The Iranian Metaphysicals : Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny / Alireza Doostdar. - 1 online resource (312 p.) : 1 b/w illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. RAMMAL -- Crossing the Line -- Popular Nonsense -- Legal Censure -- Do Jinn Exist? -- Virtuous Caution -- A Scholar-Rammal -- The Hesitant Officer -- Metaphysical Pleasures -- The Fantastic -- Rammali Refashioned -- Suppress, accommodate, sublimate -- PART 2. SCIENTIST -- Quantum Understanding -- Empirical Spirits -- Scientific Virtues -- Wings of Imagination -- Cosmic Mystics -- Specters of Doubt -- Becoming Witness -- Authority in Experience -- Experiments in Synthesis -- PART 3. FRIEND OF GOD -- A Protector Lost -- Whips for the Wayfarers -- Discretion and Publicity -- The Politics of Veneration -- Metaphysics of Vision -- Technospiritual Reflexivity -- Hagiographies Unbound -- Conclusion -- Note on the Cover Image -- Notes -- References -- Index
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What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious leaders, and statesmen in Iran have attempted to curtail many such practices as "superstitious," instead encouraging the development of rational religious sensibilities and dispositions. However, far from diminishing the diverse methods through which Iranians engage with the immaterial realm, these rationalizing processes have multiplied the possibilities for metaphysical experimentation. The Iranian Metaphysicals examines these experiments and their transformations over the past century. Drawing on years of ethnographic and archival research, Alireza Doostdar shows that metaphysical experimentation lies at the center of some of the most influential intellectual and religious movements in modern Iran. These forms of exploration have not only produced a plurality of rational orientations toward metaphysical phenomena but have also fundamentally shaped what is understood as orthodox Shi'i Islam, including the forms of Islamic rationality at the heart of projects for building and sustaining an Islamic Republic. Delving into frequently neglected aspects of Iranian spirituality, politics, and intellectual inquiry, The Iranian Metaphysicals challenges widely held assumptions about Islam, rationality, and the relationship between science and religion.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691163789 9781400889785
10.23943/9781400889785 doi
Islam and science--Iran.
Islamic occultism.
Metaphysics.
Mysticism--Islam.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis).
RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.
'Ali Shirazi. 'ajab. Abdol-Karim Soroush. Arezu Khanum. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Cosmic Intelligence. Cosmic Mysticism. Cosmic Mystics. Erlebnis. God. Iran. Islam. Islamic Republic. Islamic cosmology. Mirza Khalil Khan Saqafi. Mohammad 'Ali Taheri. Mostafa Malekiyan. Muslims. Naser Makarem Shirazi. Qur'an. Sayyed Ahmad Yazdi. Shaykh Ja'far Mojtahedi. Shaykh Rajab 'Ali the tailor. Shaykh Rajab 'Ali. Shi'i Islam. Shi'i jurists. Spiritism. Spiritists. Sufism. anguish. animality. astonishment. cautious sensibility. charlatans. civil order. conscience. consciousness. cosmology. criminalization. defensive radiation. discretion. disembodied souls. disembodied spirits. economic liberalization. empirical inquiry. empirical science. energy. entrepreneurship. epistemology. ethicolegal reasoning. ethics. exorcism. extrasensory vision. falsity. fraud. friends of God. hagiographic writing. hagiographies. healing. heart. hypnotism. hypocrisy. imaging technologies. immaterial realm. inner eye. insight. intellectuals. janbeh. jinn. leisure. lucid dreaming. marvels. matter. metaphysical experimentation. metaphysical inquiry. metaphysical pleasures. metaphysical. metaphysics. metatherapy. moral instruction. moral judgments. moral reform. moral uncertainty. mystical sensibility. mysticism. mystics. occult. personal experience. piety. pious signs. play. playfulness. police. political allegiance. politics. possession. prayer leader. psymentology. public order. punishment. quantum physics. rammal. rammali. rationality. rationalization. religion. religiosity. religious experience. religious phenomena. representation. rumor. science. scientific discovery. scientific imaginaries. scientific knowledge. scientific truth. self-discipline. self-presentation. self. sin. skepticism. sorcery. spirit science. spirit. spirituality. superstition. séances. ta'ajjub. tajrobeh. technoscience. theodicy. therapeutic ecology. tranquillity. truth. ulama. unseen. virtue. virtuous caution. wonder.
BF1434.I74 / D66 2018
130.955
The Iranian Metaphysicals : Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny / Alireza Doostdar. - 1 online resource (312 p.) : 1 b/w illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. RAMMAL -- Crossing the Line -- Popular Nonsense -- Legal Censure -- Do Jinn Exist? -- Virtuous Caution -- A Scholar-Rammal -- The Hesitant Officer -- Metaphysical Pleasures -- The Fantastic -- Rammali Refashioned -- Suppress, accommodate, sublimate -- PART 2. SCIENTIST -- Quantum Understanding -- Empirical Spirits -- Scientific Virtues -- Wings of Imagination -- Cosmic Mystics -- Specters of Doubt -- Becoming Witness -- Authority in Experience -- Experiments in Synthesis -- PART 3. FRIEND OF GOD -- A Protector Lost -- Whips for the Wayfarers -- Discretion and Publicity -- The Politics of Veneration -- Metaphysics of Vision -- Technospiritual Reflexivity -- Hagiographies Unbound -- Conclusion -- Note on the Cover Image -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious leaders, and statesmen in Iran have attempted to curtail many such practices as "superstitious," instead encouraging the development of rational religious sensibilities and dispositions. However, far from diminishing the diverse methods through which Iranians engage with the immaterial realm, these rationalizing processes have multiplied the possibilities for metaphysical experimentation. The Iranian Metaphysicals examines these experiments and their transformations over the past century. Drawing on years of ethnographic and archival research, Alireza Doostdar shows that metaphysical experimentation lies at the center of some of the most influential intellectual and religious movements in modern Iran. These forms of exploration have not only produced a plurality of rational orientations toward metaphysical phenomena but have also fundamentally shaped what is understood as orthodox Shi'i Islam, including the forms of Islamic rationality at the heart of projects for building and sustaining an Islamic Republic. Delving into frequently neglected aspects of Iranian spirituality, politics, and intellectual inquiry, The Iranian Metaphysicals challenges widely held assumptions about Islam, rationality, and the relationship between science and religion.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691163789 9781400889785
10.23943/9781400889785 doi
Islam and science--Iran.
Islamic occultism.
Metaphysics.
Mysticism--Islam.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis).
RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.
'Ali Shirazi. 'ajab. Abdol-Karim Soroush. Arezu Khanum. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Cosmic Intelligence. Cosmic Mysticism. Cosmic Mystics. Erlebnis. God. Iran. Islam. Islamic Republic. Islamic cosmology. Mirza Khalil Khan Saqafi. Mohammad 'Ali Taheri. Mostafa Malekiyan. Muslims. Naser Makarem Shirazi. Qur'an. Sayyed Ahmad Yazdi. Shaykh Ja'far Mojtahedi. Shaykh Rajab 'Ali the tailor. Shaykh Rajab 'Ali. Shi'i Islam. Shi'i jurists. Spiritism. Spiritists. Sufism. anguish. animality. astonishment. cautious sensibility. charlatans. civil order. conscience. consciousness. cosmology. criminalization. defensive radiation. discretion. disembodied souls. disembodied spirits. economic liberalization. empirical inquiry. empirical science. energy. entrepreneurship. epistemology. ethicolegal reasoning. ethics. exorcism. extrasensory vision. falsity. fraud. friends of God. hagiographic writing. hagiographies. healing. heart. hypnotism. hypocrisy. imaging technologies. immaterial realm. inner eye. insight. intellectuals. janbeh. jinn. leisure. lucid dreaming. marvels. matter. metaphysical experimentation. metaphysical inquiry. metaphysical pleasures. metaphysical. metaphysics. metatherapy. moral instruction. moral judgments. moral reform. moral uncertainty. mystical sensibility. mysticism. mystics. occult. personal experience. piety. pious signs. play. playfulness. police. political allegiance. politics. possession. prayer leader. psymentology. public order. punishment. quantum physics. rammal. rammali. rationality. rationalization. religion. religiosity. religious experience. religious phenomena. representation. rumor. science. scientific discovery. scientific imaginaries. scientific knowledge. scientific truth. self-discipline. self-presentation. self. sin. skepticism. sorcery. spirit science. spirit. spirituality. superstition. séances. ta'ajjub. tajrobeh. technoscience. theodicy. therapeutic ecology. tranquillity. truth. ulama. unseen. virtue. virtuous caution. wonder.
BF1434.I74 / D66 2018
130.955