The Social Life of Gnosis: Sufism in Post-Revolutionary Iran
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Seema Golestaneh
نام ساير پديدآوران
Ivy, Marilyn
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Columbia University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2014
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
274
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-31889-0
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Anthropology
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Columbia University
امتياز متن
2014
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
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?
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences;Aesthetics;Iran;Knowledge;Modernity;Mysticism;Sufism
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