The Iranian Metaphysicals

The Iranian Metaphysicals
Title The Iranian Metaphysicals PDF eBook
Author Alireza Doostdar
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 312
Release 2018-03-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 0691163782

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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.

The Masnavi, Book One

The Masnavi, Book One
Title The Masnavi, Book One PDF eBook
Author Jalal al-Din Rumi
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 305
Release 2004-11-11
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0192804383

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An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion

An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion
Title An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion PDF eBook
Author William W. Malandra
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 210
Release 1983
Genre Religion
ISBN 0816611149

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The Religion of the Iranian Peoples

The Religion of the Iranian Peoples
Title The Religion of the Iranian Peoples PDF eBook
Author Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Publisher
Pages 238
Release 1912
Genre Iran
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Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism

Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism
Title Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism PDF eBook
Author Zayn R. Kassam
Publisher Springer
Pages 0
Release 2018-07-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9789402412666

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The earlier volume in this series dealt with two religions of Indian origin, namely, Buddhism and Jainism. The Indian religious scene, however, is characterized by not only religions which originated in India but also by religions which entered India from outside India and made their home here. Thus religious life in India has been enlivened throughout its history by the presence of religions of foreign origin on its soil almost from the very time they came into existence. This volume covers three such religions—Zoraoastrianism, Judaism, and Islam . In the case of Zoraostianism, even its very beginnings are intertwined with India, as Zoroastrianism reformed a preexisting religion which had strong links to the Vedic heritage of India. This relationship took on a new dimension when a Zoroastrian community, fearing persecution in Persia after its Arab conquest, sought shelter in western India and ultimately went on to produce India’s pioneering nationalist in the figure of Dadabhai Naoroji ( 1825-1917), also known as the Grand Old Man of India. Jews found refuge in south India after the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E. and have remained a part of the Indian religious scene since then, some even returning to Israel after it was founded in 1948. Islam arrived in Kerala as soon as it was founded and one of the earliest mosques in the history of Islam is found in India. Islam differs from the previously mentioned religions inasmuch as it went on to gain political hegemony over parts of the country for considerable periods of time, which meant that its impact on the religious life of the subcontinent has been greater compared to the other religions. It has also meant that Islam has existed in a religiously plural environment in India for a longer period than elsewhere in the world so that not only has Islam left a mark on India, India has also left its mark on it. Indeed all the three religions covered in this volume share this dual feature, that they have profoundly influenced Indian religious life and have also in turn been profoundly influenced by their presence in India.

Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective

Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective
Title Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective PDF eBook
Author Robert L. Canfield
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 276
Release 2002-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 9780521522915

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The first book-length study to examine Turko-Persian culture as an entity.

Religious Statecraft

Religious Statecraft
Title Religious Statecraft PDF eBook
Author Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 395
Release 2018-05-08
Genre History
ISBN 0231545061

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Since the 1979 revolution, scholars and policy makers alike have tended to see Iranian political actors as religiously driven—dedicated to overturning the international order in line with a theologically prescribed outlook. This provocative book argues that such views have the link between religious ideology and political order in Iran backwards. Religious Statecraft examines the politics of Islam, rather than political Islam, to achieve a new understanding of Iranian politics and its ideological contradictions. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines against the backdrop of Iran’s factional and international politics, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly, frequently, and dramatically in accordance with elites’ threat perceptions. He argues that the Islamists’ gambit to capture the state depended on attaining a monopoly over the use of religious narratives. Tabaar explains how competing political actors strategically develop and deploy Shi’a-inspired ideologies to gain credibility, constrain political rivals, and raise mass support. He also challenges readers to rethink conventional wisdom regarding the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, the U.S. embassy hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq War, the Green Movement, nuclear politics, and U.S.–Iran relations. Based on a micro-level analysis of postrevolutionary Iranian media and recently declassified documents as well as theological journals and political memoirs, Religious Statecraft constructs a new picture of Iranian politics in which power drives Islamist ideology.