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The Iranian Metaphysicals - Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Paperback)
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The Iranian Metaphysicals - Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Paperback)
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What do the occult sciences, seances 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.
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