| Description |
1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations. |
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Nineteenth century |
| Series |
Iranian studies series ; volume 29
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Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 29.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Resurrectional mediations: Shīʻa eschatology and photography -- 2. Mourning mediations: taʿziye performances and military sonic techniques -- 3. Therapeutic mediations: Shīʻa medical imagination and cholera -- 4. Spiritual mediations: Shīʻa demonology and telegraph -- Epilogue: The semiotics of Shīʻa absurdism. |
| Summary |
"This book deals for the first time with the cultural history of media in nineteenth-century Iran, a history about how modern techniques of representation and communication were received in the Iranian Shi'a society. This reception history is examined in religious photography, military reforms, Persian passion plays, Shi'a medicine, and the burgeoning telegraphic culture. The problematic relationship between Shi'a Islam and 19th-century media is conceptualised and contextualised, especially through the lens of the first Polytechnique college (Dār al-Fonun, 1851) in Iran. This college is conceptualised as a media laboratory, where the technological sphere in Iran was fundamentally transforming. It is also contextualised in the age of reform, a period in which the Middle East was undergoing widespread social, political, and military changes. Islamic (art) history, Iranian Studies, and cultural analysis form an interdisciplinary analytic framework to create new knowledge about the historical complexity of 19th-century Iran."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Arash Ghajarjazi received his PhD from the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. His work deals with the relations between Islam, sciences, and media technologies in the Middle East from the 19th century onwards. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Shīʿah -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 19th century.
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Iran -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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communicatiemedia. |
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Perzië. |
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sji'isme. |
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Intellectual life |
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Islam |
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Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Islam |
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Shīʻah |
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Iran https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrYvcVTwChrDqytBvJXd |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Title |
Irrationalities in Islam and media in nineteenth-century Iran |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ghajarjazi, Arash. Irrationalities in Islam and media in 19th-century Iran. [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, [2022] 9087283989 (OCoLC)1334717375 |
| ISBN |
9789400604438 electronic book |
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9400604432 electronic book |
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9789087283988 hardback |
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9087283989 hardback |
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