Irrationalities in Islam and Media in Nineteenth-Century Iran: Faces of Modernity

Arash Ghajarjazi

doi:10.1515/9789400604438

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-398-8
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0443-8
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Series: Iranian Studies Series
Volume: 29
Language: English
Pages: 181
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Transliteration table No access
4. Acknowledgements No access
5. Preface No access
1. 1. Print media No access
  2. Photography No access
  3. Military sounds No access
  4. Telegraphy No access
2. Absurd as the limit to mediation No access
3. Meaning, paradox, and the absurd in Islam: Pushing Shahab Ahmed to the limit No access
4. Notes on methods No access
1. 1. The hereafter and the embodiment of deeds No access
  2. The mediated imagination of the hereafter No access
2. Photography at the limit: From mimesis to evidentiality No access
3. A world of meaning in the photographic image No access
1. 1. Military sounds in Iran No access
  2. Manuals of reform No access
2. The cultural influence of the military No access
3. Taʿziye: A short history No access
4. 1. Prologues No access
  2. Main acts No access
5. The affective mode of taʿziye No access
1. Cholera in context: Medical institutionalisation and aetiologies No access
2. 1. The taste and smell of cholera No access
  2. Talismanic methods No access
3. 1. The case of Tholozan No access
  2. The case of Schlimmer No access
1. 1. A brief history of haptics No access
  2. Narratives of haptic jenn in Majlesi and Fozuni No access
2. 1. In lieu of the telegraph: The universal fluid No access
  2. The séance with Amir Kabir and the issue of mediation No access
3. Diminishing haptics in Iranian spiritism No access
Epilogue. The semiotics of Shiʿa absurdism No access Pages 125 - 128
Notes No access Pages 129 - 152
Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 172
Index No access Pages 173 - 180