The Iranian metaphysicals (Record no. 56558)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691163789 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. |
| Distributor address | A-184 A,Nand Gram, Ghaziabad |
| Bill Number | 1831 |
| Bill Date | 15/06/2020 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 130.955 DOO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alireza Doostdar. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Iranian metaphysicals |
| Remainder of title | : explorations in science, Islam, and the uncanny. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Alireza Doostdar. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Princeton |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Princeton University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | , [2018]. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv,295p. |
| Dimensions | :24cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 2335 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Contents note | Rammal --<br/>Crossing the line --<br/>Popular nonsense --<br/>Legal censure --<br/>Do Jinn exist? --<br/>Virtuous caution --<br/>A scholar-Rammal --<br/>The hesitant officer --<br/>Metaphysical pleasures --<br/>The fantastic --<br/>Rammali refashioned --<br/>Suppress, accommodate, sublimate --<br/>Scientist --<br/>Quantum understanding --<br/>Empirical spirits --<br/>Scientific virtues --<br/>Wings of imagination --<br/>Cosmic mystics --<br/>Specters of doubt --<br/>Becoming witness --<br/>Authority in experience --<br/>Experiments in synthesis --<br/>Friend of God --<br/>A protector lost --<br/>Whips for the wayfarers --<br/>Discretion and publicity --<br/>The politics of veneration --<br/>Metaphysics of vision --<br/>Techno-spiritual reflexivity --<br/>Hagiographies unbound |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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," instead encouraging the development of rational religious sensibilities and dispositions. However, far from diminishing the diverse methods through which Iranians engage with the immaterial realm, these rationalizing processes have multiplied the possibilities for metaphysical experimentation. The Iranian Metaphysicals examines these experiments and their transformations over the past century. Drawing on years of ethnographic and archival research, Alireza Doostdar shows that metaphysical experimentation lies at the center of some of the most influential intellectual and religious movements in modern Iran. These forms of exploration have not only produced a plurality of rational orientations toward metaphysical phenomena but have also fundamentally shaped what is understood as orthodox Shi'i Islam, including the forms of Islamic rationality at the heart of projects for building and sustaining an Islamic Republic. Delving into frequently neglected aspects of Iranian spirituality, politics, and intellectual inquiry, The Iranian Metaphysicals challenges widely held assumptions about Islam, rationality, and the relationship between science and religion. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Phylosophy |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Islamic occultism. |
| Non-focus term | Mysticism. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alireza Doostdar. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 03/07/2020 | Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. | 2335.00 | 130.955 DOO | 27542 | 03/07/2020 | 03/07/2020 | Books |
