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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 o...
"An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought." —Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline and how Middle Eastern anthropologists have developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region's political, ethical, and intellectual concerns. The contributors are students of Paul Dresch, an anthropol...
Features Of Coursebooks 1 8" Participatory Learning And Purposeful Group Activity" Fluency In Spoken Language" Reading Texts Appropriate For Each Level With Related Questions Exploring The Depth Of The Learner S Understanding" Writing Skills With Emphasis On Accuracy And Fluency" Note-Making And Summarising Activities" Elements Of Language Integrated With Competencies
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.