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

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,&quo...

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Main Author: Doostdar, Alireza (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Oxford Princeton University Press 2018
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Iran / Occultism / Islam
Further subjects:B Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
B Islamic occultism
B Islam and science
B Mysticism
B Metaphysics
B Mysticism Islam
B Thesis
B RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
B Islam and science (Iran)
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