The many faces of Iranian modernity : Sufism and subjectivity in the Safavid and Qajar periods / Robert Landau Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Robert Landau, author.

Series:

Modern Muslim world (Piscataway, NJ)

The modern Muslim world ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Iran--History.

Sufism.

Islam and state--Iran--History.

Islam and state.

Islam and politics--Iran--History.

Islam and politics.

History.

Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.

Iran.

Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.

Physical Description:

xii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Sufism and subjectivity in the Safavid and Qajar periods

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2021.

Summary:

"This study into both reformism and mysticism demonstrates both that mystical rhetoric appeared regularly in supposedly anti-mystical modernist writing and that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sufis actually addressed questions of intellectual and political reform in their writing, despite the common assertion that they were irrationally traditional and politically quietist"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Listen to the Nay: poetry, Sufism, and the knowing subject

2. Kāshifī's late Timurid ethics and Muʼazzin Khurāsānī's SHīʻī "Golden Chain"

3. Sufism beyond itself: two Nineteenth-Century responses to Rumi's Masnavī

4. Humanity as modern religion: Ādamīyat, Insānīyat, and Qānūn in Mīrzā Malkum Khān and Safī ʻAlī Shāh

Epilogue. Successions: Ethics, knowledge, and the Constitutional Revolution

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ames, Robert Landau. Many faces of Iranian modernity

ISBN:

9781463242374

1463242379

OCLC:

1237396248

Publisher Number:

99987674216