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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2018]
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 165-194 |
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Niʿmat Allāhiyya
B Qajar period B Ṣafī ʿAlī Shāh B Epistemology B Modernity B Iranian history B Sufism |
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