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" The Social Life of Gnosis: Sufism in Post-Revolutionary Iran "
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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802817
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TL47993
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1626663702; 3643881
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Chavis, Llena H.
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The Social Life of Gnosis: Sufism in Post-Revolutionary Iran
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\ Seema Golestaneh
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Ivy, Marilyn
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Columbia University
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2014
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Ph.D.
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2014
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Anthropology
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274
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-31889-0
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| Abstract
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My research examines the social and material life of gnosis for the contemporary Sufi community in post-revolutionary Iran. In contrast to literatures which confine Sufism to the literary and poetic realms, I investigate the ways in which gnosis (mystical epistemology) is re-configured as a series of techniques for navigating the realm of the everyday. In particular, I focus on the ways in which mystical knowledge (<i>ma'arifat-e 'erfani</i>) is utilized by the Sufis to position themselves as outside of the socio-political areana, a move that, within the context of the Islamic Republic, in and of itself possesses vast political and social repercussions. I approach gnosis in two ways: both as object of study but also as critical lens, utilizing the Sufis' own mystical epistemology to guide me in understanding and interpreting my ethnographic case studies. In my dissertation, I address the following questions: What is the role of the Sufis, a group positioned on neither side of the orthodoxy-secular divide, within post-revolutionary Iran? How does a religious group attempt to create and maintain a disavowal of the political realm in a theocracy? More broadly, what is the role of mysticism within late modernity, and how might such a question be answered anthropologically?
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Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies
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Social sciences;Aesthetics;Iran;Knowledge;Modernity;Mysticism;Sufism
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Ivy, Marilyn
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Columbia University
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Anthropology
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