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“Mysticism” in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept Ata Anzali, Studies in Comparative Religion, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2017. Hardback. ISBN 978-1-6111-7807-4, xiii + 264 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Syed A. H. Zaidi
Syed A. H. Zaidi*
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Islamic Civilizations Studies, Emory University
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Iranian Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 3-4: Special Section: Commercial, Confessional, and Military Encounters in Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands in the Early Modern Period , July 2019 , pp. 626 - 630
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References

1 Mohammad Faghfoory, Tuḥfah Yi-ʿAbbāsī: The Golden Chain of Sufism in Shīʿite Islam (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008), 10.

2 I.e. the highest-ranking scholars of the exoteric and esoteric sciences.

3 Ibid.

4 For a detailed study of the differences between wilāya and walāya, see Vincent J. Cornell, Realm of the Saint (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), 273‒4.

5 Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Sufi Essays (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991), 66.

6 Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ḥusaynī Ṭihrānī, Kernel of the Kernel, trans. Mohammad H. Faghfoory (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003), xviii.

7 Cornell, Realm of the Saint, 273‒4.