Weighing Knowledge: Humanity, Modernity, and Ṣafī ʿAlī Shāh's Mīzān al-maʿrifah

This article studies the influence of late Qajar cultures of politics and ethics upon a Sufi theory of knowledge. It argues that Mīrzā Ḥasan Iṣfahānī (known in Sufi circles as Ṣafī ʿAlī Shāh) performed the role of public intellectual in his treatise on knowledge and ethics Mīzān al-maʿrifah (The Sca...

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Main Author: Ames, Robert Landau (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2018]
In: Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 165-194
Further subjects:B Niʿmat Allāhiyya
B Qajar period
B Ṣafī ʿAlī Shāh
B Epistemology
B Modernity
B Iranian history
B Sufism
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