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The Social Life of Gnosis: Sufism in Post-Revolutionary Iran
[Thesis]
Seema Golestaneh
Ivy, Marilyn
Columbia University
2014
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-31889-0
Ph.D.
Anthropology
Columbia University
2014
My research examines the social and material life of gnosis for the contemporary Sufi community in post-revolutionary Iran. In contrast to literatures which confine Sufism to the literary and poetic realms, I investigate the ways in which gnosis (mystical epistemology) is re-configured as a series of techniques for navigating the realm of the everyday. In particular, I focus on the ways in which mystical knowledge (ma'arifat-e 'erfani) is utilized by the Sufis to position themselves as outside of the socio-political areana, a move that, within the context of the Islamic Republic, in and of itself possesses vast political and social repercussions. I approach gnosis in two ways: both as object of study but also as critical lens, utilizing the Sufis' own mystical epistemology to guide me in understanding and interpreting my ethnographic case studies. In my dissertation, I address the following questions: What is the role of the Sufis, a group positioned on neither side of the orthodoxy-secular divide, within post-revolutionary Iran? How does a religious group attempt to create and maintain a disavowal of the political realm in a theocracy? More broadly, what is the role of mysticism within late modernity, and how might such a question be answered anthropologically?
Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies
Social sciences;Aesthetics;Iran;Knowledge;Modernity;Mysticism;Sufism
Chavis, Llena H.
Ivy, Marilyn
Anthropology
Columbia University
1626663702; 3643881
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