The Iranian metaphysicals : explorations in science, Islam, and the uncanny /

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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,&qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Doostdar, Alireza (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Islamic occultism.
Islam and science > Iran.
Mysticism > Islam.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Metaphysics.
First philosophy.
Occultisme islamique.
Islam et sciences.
Mysticisme > Islam.
Inquiétante étrangeté (Psychanalyse)
Métaphysique.
metaphysics.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Mysticism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Occultism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Reference.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Supernatural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Islamic Studies.
Islam and science.
Iran.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Scientist
  • Quantum understanding
  • Empirical spirits
  • Scientific virtues
  • Wings of imagination
  • Cosmic mystics
  • Specters of doubt
  • Becoming witness
  • Authority in experience
  • Experiments in synthesis
  • Friend of God
  • A protector lost
  • Whips for the wayfarers
  • Discretion and publicity
  • The politics of veneration
  • Metaphysics of vision
  • Techno-spiritual reflexivity
  • Hagiographies unbound.

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