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Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

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At the end of the journey we can agree that the author has offered us ‘a bridge to a past to which we are now blind.’ A pretty solid bridge it is, too, a work of great industry, erudition and insight… This is a book that will richly repay close reading and rereading, and makes a very important contribution to our understanding of both Safavid religious and political history, and the role of Sh’ite Islam in modern Iran. -- Charles Melville * Times Literary Supplement *
This work seeks to shed light on the cultural landscape of early modern Iran, focusing on the role of the Qizilbash in creating myths to explain early existence. -- C. E. Farah * Choice *

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2003
      ISBN13: 9780932885289, 978-0932885289
      ISBN10: 0932885284

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

      Trade Review
      At the end of the journey we can agree that the author has offered us ‘a bridge to a past to which we are now blind.’ A pretty solid bridge it is, too, a work of great industry, erudition and insight… This is a book that will richly repay close reading and rereading, and makes a very important contribution to our understanding of both Safavid religious and political history, and the role of Sh’ite Islam in modern Iran. -- Charles Melville * Times Literary Supplement *
      This work seeks to shed light on the cultural landscape of early modern Iran, focusing on the role of the Qizilbash in creating myths to explain early existence. -- C. E. Farah * Choice *

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