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Unknowing and the Everyday - Sufism and Knowledge in Iran (Hardcover)
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Unknowing and the Everyday - Sufism and Knowledge in Iran (Hardcover)
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In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi
mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to
this process is ma'rifat, or "unknowing"-the idea that, as it is
ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine, humanity must
operate from an engaged awareness that it knows nothing. Golestaneh
shows that rather than considering ma'rifat an obstacle to
intellectual engagement, Sufis embrace that there will always be
that which they do not know. From this position, they affirm both
the limits of human knowledge and the mysteries of the profane
world. Through ethnographic case studies, Golestaneh traces the
affective and sensory dimensions of ma'rifat in contexts such as
the creation of collective Sufi spaces, the interpretation of
Persian poetry, formulations of selfhood and non-selfhood, and the
navigation of the socio-material realm. By outlining the
relationship between ma'rifat and religious, aesthetic, and social
life in Iran, Golestaneh demonstrates that for Sufis the outer
bounds of human thought are the beginning rather than the limit.
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