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Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran and the idea of unknowing—the idea that it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine—shapes contemporary life.

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"Golestaneh’s writing throughout the book is lucid and effective, frequently poetic. ... A beautifully crafted memoir of a wandering Sufi of an academic, lost in the charmingly mystical landscape of contemporary Isfahan."

-- Guangtian Ha * International Journal of Middle East Studies *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xv
Introduction 1
1. Sufism in Iran, Iran in Sufism 29
2. Unknowing of Text, Unknowing of Authority 59
3. Unknowing of Self, Unknowing of Body 96
4. Unknowing of Memory 135
5. Unknowing of Place 165
Postscript 189
Notes 193
Bibliography 211
Index 225

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 03/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9781478016892, 978-1478016892
      ISBN10: 1478016892
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      Middle Eastern history Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran and the idea of unknowing—the idea that it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine—shapes contemporary life.

      Trade Review

      "Golestaneh’s writing throughout the book is lucid and effective, frequently poetic. ... A beautifully crafted memoir of a wandering Sufi of an academic, lost in the charmingly mystical landscape of contemporary Isfahan."

      -- Guangtian Ha * International Journal of Middle East Studies *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix
      Prologue xv
      Introduction 1
      1. Sufism in Iran, Iran in Sufism 29
      2. Unknowing of Text, Unknowing of Authority 59
      3. Unknowing of Self, Unknowing of Body 96
      4. Unknowing of Memory 135
      5. Unknowing of Place 165
      Postscript 189
      Notes 193
      Bibliography 211
      Index 225

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