Seema Golestaneh

Unknowing and the Everyday

Sufism and Knowledge in Iran

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran and the idea of unknowing—the idea that it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine—shapes contemporary life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019534
• ISBN-10: 1478019530
• Artikelnr.: 63873456

Autorenporträt

Seema Golestaneh is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Prologue  xv
Introduction  1
1. Sufism in Iran, Iran in Sufism  29
2. Unknowing of Text, Unknowing of Authority  59
3. Unknowing of Self, Unknowing of Body  96
4. Unknowing of Memory  135
5. Unknowing of Place  165
Postscript  189
Notes  193
Bibliography  211
Index  225