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This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th century Qajar Iran (then known to Westerners as Persia), & how it provided a mood & attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a…

This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th century Qajar Iran (then known to Westerners as Persia), & how it provided a mood & attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new…

"The subject of Mystical Languages of Unsaying is an important but neglected mode of mystical discourse, apophasis. which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of…