Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Islamic Studies
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Sufism and Suficari in Iran
In Iran at least from sort of 1500 onwards it's important to know that it is mysticism mysticism in particular is referred to by multiple terms. And so, you know, like we're not those Sufis were these types of Sufis. So the traditions are these sort of esoteric tradition really gets kind of subsumed within the emerging sort of Shia milieu of the time. The half of its of course bringing she is them for the first time in large scale practice to Iran at the time. This is where you have the tradition, rather than call it Sufi becomes air fun. Within the 20th century with the revival of the Jose seminaries in home and as fun
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