An Intellectual History of Early-Pahlavī Demonology, 1921-41/1299-1320 sh.
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Arshavez Mozafari
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Toronto (Canada)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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301
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-92668-1
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Body granting the degree
University of Toronto (Canada)
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies; History