˜The œmany faces of Iranian modernity: Sufism and subjectivity in the Safavid and Qajar periods

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"This study into both reformism and mysticism demonstrates both that mystical rhetoric appeared regularly in supposedly anti-mystical modernist writing and that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sufis actually addressed questions of intellectual and political reform in their writing, despite the common assertion that they were irrationally traditional and politically quietist"--

Introduction 1. Listen to the Nay: poetry, Sufism, and the knowing subject 2. Kāshifī's late Timurid ethics and Muʼazzin Khurāsānī's SHīʻī "Golden Chain" 3. Sufism beyond itself: two Nineteenth-Century responses to Rumi's Masnavī 4. Humanity as modern religion: Ādamīyat, Insānīyat, and Qānūn in Mīrzā Malkum Khān and Safī ʻAlī Shāh Epilogue. Successions: Ethics, knowledge, and the Constitutional Revolution Bibliography Index