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Mysticism in Iran : the Safavid roots of a modern concept / Ata Anzali.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781611178081
  • 1611178088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mysticism in Iran.DDC classification:
  • 297.40955 23
LOC classification:
  • BP188.8.I7 A59 2017
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: the question of ʻirfan in contemporary Iran -- ʻIrfan in the pre-Safavid period -- The Safavid opposition to sufism -- The sufi response -- The invention of ʻirfan -- The institutionalization of ʻirfan -- Modernization of ʻirfan -- Epilogue: ʻirfan as mysticism?
Summary: An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the question of ʻirfan in contemporary Iran -- ʻIrfan in the pre-Safavid period -- The Safavid opposition to sufism -- The sufi response -- The invention of ʻirfan -- The institutionalization of ʻirfan -- Modernization of ʻirfan -- Epilogue: ʻirfan as mysticism?

An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 18, 2018).