TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doostdar,Alireza
TI  - The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny 
SN  - 9780691163789
AV  - BF1434.I74 D66 2018
U1  - 130.955 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Islam and science
KW  - Iran
KW  - Islamic occultism
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Islam
KW  - Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
KW  - RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 'Ali Shirazi
KW  - 'ajab
KW  - Abdol-Karim Soroush
KW  - Arezu Khanum
KW  - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
KW  - Cosmic Intelligence
KW  - Cosmic Mysticism
KW  - Cosmic Mystics
KW  - Erlebnis
KW  - God
KW  - Islamic Republic
KW  - Islamic cosmology
KW  - Mirza Khalil Khan Saqafi
KW  - Mohammad 'Ali Taheri
KW  - Mostafa Malekiyan
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Naser Makarem Shirazi
KW  - Qur'an
KW  - Sayyed Ahmad Yazdi
KW  - Shaykh Ja'far Mojtahedi
KW  - Shaykh Rajab 'Ali the tailor
KW  - Shaykh Rajab 'Ali
KW  - Shi'i Islam
KW  - Shi'i jurists
KW  - Spiritism
KW  - Spiritists
KW  - Sufism
KW  - anguish
KW  - animality
KW  - astonishment
KW  - cautious sensibility
KW  - charlatans
KW  - civil order
KW  - conscience
KW  - consciousness
KW  - cosmology
KW  - criminalization
KW  - defensive radiation
KW  - discretion
KW  - disembodied souls
KW  - disembodied spirits
KW  - economic liberalization
KW  - empirical inquiry
KW  - empirical science
KW  - energy
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - epistemology
KW  - ethicolegal reasoning
KW  - ethics
KW  - exorcism
KW  - extrasensory vision
KW  - falsity
KW  - fraud
KW  - friends of God
KW  - hagiographic writing
KW  - hagiographies
KW  - healing
KW  - heart
KW  - hypnotism
KW  - hypocrisy
KW  - imaging technologies
KW  - immaterial realm
KW  - inner eye
KW  - insight
KW  - intellectuals
KW  - janbeh
KW  - jinn
KW  - leisure
KW  - lucid dreaming
KW  - marvels
KW  - matter
KW  - metaphysical experimentation
KW  - metaphysical inquiry
KW  - metaphysical pleasures
KW  - metaphysical
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - metatherapy
KW  - moral instruction
KW  - moral judgments
KW  - moral reform
KW  - moral uncertainty
KW  - mystical sensibility
KW  - mysticism
KW  - mystics
KW  - occult
KW  - personal experience
KW  - piety
KW  - pious signs
KW  - play
KW  - playfulness
KW  - police
KW  - political allegiance
KW  - politics
KW  - possession
KW  - prayer leader
KW  - psymentology
KW  - public order
KW  - punishment
KW  - quantum physics
KW  - rammal
KW  - rammali
KW  - rationality
KW  - rationalization
KW  - religion
KW  - religiosity
KW  - religious experience
KW  - religious phenomena
KW  - representation
KW  - rumor
KW  - science
KW  - scientific discovery
KW  - scientific imaginaries
KW  - scientific knowledge
KW  - scientific truth
KW  - self-discipline
KW  - self-presentation
KW  - self
KW  - sin
KW  - skepticism
KW  - sorcery
KW  - spirit science
KW  - spirit
KW  - spirituality
KW  - superstition
KW  - séances
KW  - ta'ajjub
KW  - tajrobeh
KW  - technoscience
KW  - theodicy
KW  - therapeutic ecology
KW  - tranquillity
KW  - truth
KW  - ulama
KW  - unseen
KW  - virtue
KW  - virtuous caution
KW  - wonder
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.23943/9781400889785?locatt=mode:legacy
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