{"product_id":"mystics-monarchs-messiah-cultural-landscape-of-early-modern-iran-9780932885289","title":"Mystics Monarchs  Messiah  Cultural Landscape of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing 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 \u003ci\u003eghuluww\u003c\/i\u003e, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371795620183,"sku":"9780932885289","price":16.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mystics-monarchs-messiah-cultural-landscape-of-early-modern-iran-9780932885289","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}