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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400889785
035 _a(DE-B1597)491085
035 _a(OCoLC)1020567600
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aBF1434.I74
_bD66 2018
072 7 _aREL084000
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082 0 4 _a130.955
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDoostdar, Alireza
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Iranian Metaphysicals :
_bExplorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny /
_cAlireza Doostdar.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (312 p.) :
_b1 b/w illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tNote on Transliteration --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart 1. RAMMAL --
_tCrossing the Line --
_tPopular Nonsense --
_tLegal Censure --
_tDo Jinn Exist? --
_tVirtuous Caution --
_tA Scholar-Rammal --
_tThe Hesitant Officer --
_tMetaphysical Pleasures --
_tThe Fantastic --
_tRammali Refashioned --
_tSuppress, accommodate, sublimate --
_tPART 2. SCIENTIST --
_tQuantum Understanding --
_tEmpirical Spirits --
_tScientific Virtues --
_tWings of Imagination --
_tCosmic Mystics --
_tSpecters of Doubt --
_tBecoming Witness --
_tAuthority in Experience --
_tExperiments in Synthesis --
_tPART 3. FRIEND OF GOD --
_tA Protector Lost --
_tWhips for the Wayfarers --
_tDiscretion and Publicity --
_tThe Politics of Veneration --
_tMetaphysics of Vision --
_tTechnospiritual Reflexivity --
_tHagiographies Unbound --
_tConclusion --
_tNote on the Cover Image --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhat 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
650 0 _aIslam and science
_zIran.
650 0 _aIslamic occultism.
650 0 _aMetaphysics.
650 0 _aMysticism
_xIslam.
650 0 _aUncanny, The (Psychoanalysis).
650 7 _aRELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.
_2bisacsh
653 _a'Ali Shirazi.
653 _a'ajab.
653 _aAbdol-Karim Soroush.
653 _aArezu Khanum.
653 _aAyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
653 _aCosmic Intelligence.
653 _aCosmic Mysticism.
653 _aCosmic Mystics.
653 _aErlebnis.
653 _aGod.
653 _aIran.
653 _aIslam.
653 _aIslamic Republic.
653 _aIslamic cosmology.
653 _aMirza Khalil Khan Saqafi.
653 _aMohammad 'Ali Taheri.
653 _aMostafa Malekiyan.
653 _aMuslims.
653 _aNaser Makarem Shirazi.
653 _aQur'an.
653 _aSayyed Ahmad Yazdi.
653 _aShaykh Ja'far Mojtahedi.
653 _aShaykh Rajab 'Ali the tailor.
653 _aShaykh Rajab 'Ali.
653 _aShi'i Islam.
653 _aShi'i jurists.
653 _aSpiritism.
653 _aSpiritists.
653 _aSufism.
653 _aanguish.
653 _aanimality.
653 _aastonishment.
653 _acautious sensibility.
653 _acharlatans.
653 _acivil order.
653 _aconscience.
653 _aconsciousness.
653 _acosmology.
653 _acriminalization.
653 _adefensive radiation.
653 _adiscretion.
653 _adisembodied souls.
653 _adisembodied spirits.
653 _aeconomic liberalization.
653 _aempirical inquiry.
653 _aempirical science.
653 _aenergy.
653 _aentrepreneurship.
653 _aepistemology.
653 _aethicolegal reasoning.
653 _aethics.
653 _aexorcism.
653 _aextrasensory vision.
653 _afalsity.
653 _afraud.
653 _afriends of God.
653 _ahagiographic writing.
653 _ahagiographies.
653 _ahealing.
653 _aheart.
653 _ahypnotism.
653 _ahypocrisy.
653 _aimaging technologies.
653 _aimmaterial realm.
653 _ainner eye.
653 _ainsight.
653 _aintellectuals.
653 _ajanbeh.
653 _ajinn.
653 _aleisure.
653 _alucid dreaming.
653 _amarvels.
653 _amatter.
653 _ametaphysical experimentation.
653 _ametaphysical inquiry.
653 _ametaphysical pleasures.
653 _ametaphysical.
653 _ametaphysics.
653 _ametatherapy.
653 _amoral instruction.
653 _amoral judgments.
653 _amoral reform.
653 _amoral uncertainty.
653 _amystical sensibility.
653 _amysticism.
653 _amystics.
653 _aoccult.
653 _apersonal experience.
653 _apiety.
653 _apious signs.
653 _aplay.
653 _aplayfulness.
653 _apolice.
653 _apolitical allegiance.
653 _apolitics.
653 _apossession.
653 _aprayer leader.
653 _apsymentology.
653 _apublic order.
653 _apunishment.
653 _aquantum physics.
653 _arammal.
653 _arammali.
653 _arationality.
653 _arationalization.
653 _areligion.
653 _areligiosity.
653 _areligious experience.
653 _areligious phenomena.
653 _arepresentation.
653 _arumor.
653 _ascience.
653 _ascientific discovery.
653 _ascientific imaginaries.
653 _ascientific knowledge.
653 _ascientific truth.
653 _aself-discipline.
653 _aself-presentation.
653 _aself.
653 _asin.
653 _askepticism.
653 _asorcery.
653 _aspirit science.
653 _aspirit.
653 _aspirituality.
653 _asuperstition.
653 _aséances.
653 _ata'ajjub.
653 _atajrobeh.
653 _atechnoscience.
653 _atheodicy.
653 _atherapeutic ecology.
653 _atranquillity.
653 _atruth.
653 _aulama.
653 _aunseen.
653 _avirtue.
653 _avirtuous caution.
653 _awonder.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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