Mysticism in Iran : The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept /
An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?


