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028			_aRaghav Books Pvt. Ltd. _bA-184 A,Nand Gram, Ghaziabad _c1831 _d15/06/2020
082			_a130.955 DOO
100			_aAlireza Doostdar.
245			_aThe Iranian metaphysicals _b: explorations in science, Islam, and the uncanny. _c/ Alireza Doostdar.
260			_aPrinceton _b: Princeton University Press _c, [2018].
300			_axiv,295p. _c:24cm.
365			_b2335
505			_aRammal -- Crossing the line -- Popular nonsense -- Legal censure -- Do Jinn exist? -- Virtuous caution -- A scholar-Rammal -- The hesitant officer -- Metaphysical pleasures -- The fantastic -- Rammali refashioned -- Suppress, accommodate, sublimate -- Scientist -- Quantum understanding -- Empirical spirits -- Scientific virtues -- Wings of imagination -- Cosmic mystics -- Specters of doubt -- Becoming witness -- Authority in experience -- Experiments in synthesis -- Friend of God -- A protector lost -- Whips for the wayfarers -- Discretion and publicity -- The politics of veneration -- Metaphysics of vision -- Techno-spiritual reflexivity -- Hagiographies unbound
520			_aWhat 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			_aPhylosophy
655			_aIslamic occultism. _bMysticism.
700			_aAlireza Doostdar.
942			_cBOOK