عنوان

An Intellectual History of Early-Pahlavī Demonology, 1921-41/1299-1320 sh.

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انگلیسی

An Intellectual History of Early-Pahlavī Demonology, 1921-41/1299-1320 sh.

[Thesis]

Arshavez Mozafari

Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad

University of Toronto (Canada)

2015

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-92668-1

Ph.D.

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

University of Toronto (Canada)

2015

This historiographical dissertation details how ancient and medieval Iranian demonology, including its avatars, motifs and styles of discernment, went through a radical conceptual revolution during the span of modernity, being informed by and impinging all domains of activity in which the demonic can be traced, such as the political, social, economic, technological, philosophical, and moral. Through an analysis of discourses and literatures pertaining to these domains, this study divulges the logic, mechanisms and movements behind the persistent deployment of traditional characterological signifiers of unholiness during a period of the twentieth century that is customarily argued to be a time generally preoccupied with notions of modernization inherited from the European Enlightenment tradition. In this work of inquiry, there is a focus on the early years of Pahlavī rule (1921-41/1299-1320 sh.) when a whole cluster of demonological notions and understandings entered a stage of hitherto unrealized clarity and coalecsed struggle for hegemonic supremacy.

Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies; History

Social sciences;Demonology;Iran;Pahlavi

Mohamed, Mohamed

Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

University of Toronto (Canada)

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