This book deals for the first time with the cultural history of media in nineteenth-century Iran, a history that deals with 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 Sh..a Islam and 19th-century media is conceptualised and contextualised, especially through the lens of the first Polytechnique college (D.r 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.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2022
Copyrightjahr
2022
ISBN-Print
978-90-8728-398-8
ISBN-Online
978-94-006-0443-8
Verlag
Leiden University Press, Leiden
Reihe
Iranian Studies Series
Band
29
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
181
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Table of Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Figures Kein Zugriff
Transliteration table Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Preface Kein Zugriff
Print media Kein Zugriff
Photography Kein Zugriff
Military sounds Kein Zugriff
Telegraphy Kein Zugriff
Absurd as the limit to mediation Kein Zugriff
Meaning, paradox, and the absurd in Islam: Pushing Shahab Ahmed to the limit Kein Zugriff
Notes on methods Kein Zugriff
The hereafter and the embodiment of deeds Kein Zugriff
The mediated imagination of the hereafter Kein Zugriff
Photography at the limit: From mimesis to evidentiality Kein Zugriff
A world of meaning in the photographic image Kein Zugriff
Military sounds in Iran Kein Zugriff
Manuals of reform Kein Zugriff
The cultural influence of the military Kein Zugriff
Taʿziye: A short history Kein Zugriff
Prologues Kein Zugriff
Main acts Kein Zugriff
The affective mode of taʿziye Kein Zugriff
Cholera in context: Medical institutionalisation and aetiologies Kein Zugriff
The taste and smell of cholera Kein Zugriff
Talismanic methods Kein Zugriff
The case of Tholozan Kein Zugriff
The case of Schlimmer Kein Zugriff
A brief history of haptics Kein Zugriff
Narratives of haptic jenn in Majlesi and Fozuni Kein Zugriff
In lieu of the telegraph: The universal fluid Kein Zugriff
The séance with Amir Kabir and the issue of mediation Kein Zugriff
Diminishing haptics in Iranian spiritism Kein Zugriff
Epilogue. The semiotics of Shiʿa absurdism Kein Zugriff Seiten 125 - 128
