God and man in Tehran : contending visions of the divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic / Hossein Kamaly.

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In God and Man in Tehran, Hossein Kamaly explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran's capital throughout the past two hundred years. Kamaly examines how ideas of God have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing how notions of the div...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kamaly, Hossein (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
God (Islam)
Tehran (Iran) > History.
Iran > Tehran.
Gott.
Gottesvorstellung.
Islam.
Teheran.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • O God, o heaven, o nature
  • Mediatory theology and its discontents
  • God with us
  • The law : God's and man's
  • Falsadeh in the Madraseh
  • Sufism returns, and with a vengeance
  • Varieties of skeptical expression
  • Appendix A : names and dates.