| Description |
1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Iranian studies series ; volume 29 |
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Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 29.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Resurrectional mediations: Shīʻa eschatology and photography -- 2. Mourning mediations: taʿziye performances and military sonic techniques -- 3. Therapeutic mediations: Shīʻa medical imagination and cholera -- 4. Spiritual mediations: Shīʻa demonology and telegraph -- Epilogue: The semiotics of Shīʻa absurdism |
| Summary |
"This book deals for the first time with the cultural history of media in nineteenth-century Iran, a history about 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 Shi'a Islam and 19th-century media is conceptualised and contextualised, especially through the lens of the first Polytechnique college (Dār 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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Arash Ghajarjazi received his PhD from the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. His work deals with the relations between Islam, sciences, and media technologies in the Middle East from the 19th century onwards |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Islam -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
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Shīʿah -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
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Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 19th century
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communicatiemedia.
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Perzië.
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sji'isme.
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Intellectual life
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Islam
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Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Shīʻah
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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| Subject |
Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789400604438 |
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9400604432 |
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