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God and Man in Tehran<\/em>: Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic<\/span>
\nThe explorations presented in this book are historical, not theological, metaphysical, or religious, in both purview and purpose. The objective is neither to prove any theological propositions nor to disprove any metaphysical principles; neither to discover and expose the existence or nonexistence of primary truths or immutable essences nor to justify the dogmatic origins of concepts or delineate their consequences. God and Man in Tehran<\/em> is a disclaimer: Neither a polemic nor an apology, this inquiry does not settle age-old philosophical, theological, or religious scores.
\nRather, the goal of God and Man in Tehran<\/em> is to illustrate how certain ideas have been made, unmade, and remade within the geographic and historical confines of the city of Tehran. In this book, several positions will be framed successively in seven chapters. These views are interrelated in di\ufb00erent ways, sometimes imbricating and convergent, sometimes discordant and di\ufb00usive, but always mirroring the concrete conditions that engender and sustain them. What Tehranis have believed or disbelieved re\ufb02ects the ideals, anxieties, ambiguities, and ironies built or transpierced into their history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 1 surveys the impact of modern natural science on related conceptions of reason, law, religion, and art. Introducing the term \u201cmediatory theology\u201d as a comparative rubric, chapter 2 discusses the historical unfolding of pertinent debates on the agentive relationship between God and the world. Besides the dominant majority Shia Muslim population of the city, the views of other faith groups inform this presentation\u2014the thousands of Armenian and Assyrian Christians, Jews, Sunni Muslims, Zoroastrians, Bahais, and the Ahl-e \u1e24aq (People of the Truth). Chapter 3 continues by enumerating some God-oriented beliefs and practices that shaped the quotidian routines of ordinary women and men in Tehran. Of course, the intellectual elite often opined that the common folks\u2019 understandings of the real issues involved were inadequate, quaint, or outright incoherent. The following four chapters outline some aspects of more theoretically systematic disciplines that define the turfs of the expert elite. First comes an elaboration on perceived relations between the law of God and man-made
\nlegislation in chapter 4. As early as the 1810s, Tehran began to have religious madrasahs\u2014educational institutions for the \u02bfolam\u0101<\/span>. While law and jurisprudence formed the core of the curriculum in madrasahs, there was also room for metaphysical knowledge or madrasah philosophy. This is the
\ntopic of chapter 5. Then chapter 6 follows with an overview of the development of some mystical ideas associated with Sufism. Finally, chapter 7 turns to religious skepticism and some other more recent theological developments. Ever since Tehran first rose to prominence, people of diverse walks of life embraced myriad beliefs about God. Where some stood unshakable in their convictions, others wavered in theirs. Looking at the expressions of theological skepticism, revisionism, and reformism, the last
\nchapter of God and Man in Tehran<\/em> draws attention to the discursive negative space that surrounds the many views encountered in the preceding ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hossein Kamaly<\/a> is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary. A scholar of the Middle East, focusing on the history of ideas, he has previously taught at Barnard College and Columbia University and is the author of God and Man in Tehran<\/em>. He lives in New York.<\/p>\n

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Author: HOSSEIN KAMALY<\/span>
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