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Author Moazzen, Maryam, author.

Title Formation of a religious landscape : Shi'i higher learning in Safavid Iran / by Maryam Moazzen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Islamic history and civilization: studies and texts ; volume 151
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 151.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The Mosque-Madrasas of Safavid Isfahan -- The Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī : Waqfs, Administrative Structure, and Academic Life -- Reshaping Shi'a Cultural Memory : Commemorative Rituals and Constructing Identity -- The Safavid Curriculum : Conflicting Visions, Contested Triumphs -- Engagement with Religious Knowledge : Dialogical and Hermeneutical Modes of Transmission -- Safavid Pedagogical Approaches : Theories, Application, Practices and Critiques.
Summary In Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi'i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran, Maryam Moazzen offers the first systematic examination of Shi'i educational institution and practices by exploring the ways in which religious knowledge was produced, authenticated, and transmitted in the second half of Safavid rule (1588-1722). By analyzing the deeds of endowment of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī and other mosque-madrasas built by the Safavid elite, this study sheds light on the organizing mechanisms and structures utilized by such educational foundations. Based on the large number of ijazās and other primary sources including waqfiyyas, biographical dictionaries and autobiographies, this study also reconstructs the Safavid madrasas' curriculum and describes the pedagogical methods used to transmit religious knowledge as well as issues that faced Shi'i higher learning in early modern times.
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Subject Madrasahs -- Iran -- History.
Madrasahs.
Iran.
History.
Islamic religious education -- Iran -- History.
Islamic religious education.
Shiites -- Education -- Iran -- History.
Shiites.
Education.
Islamic education -- Iran -- History.
Islamic education.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Title Shi'i higher learning in Safavid Iran
Other Form: Print version: Moazzen, Maryam. Formation of a religious landscape. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004355293 (DLC) 2017050564
ISBN 9789004356559 electronic book
900435655X electronic book
9789004355293