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Mystic Regimes
Sufism and the State in Iran, from the late Qajar Era to the Islamic Republic
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Mystic Regimes is a social-scientific and Iranological study of two Iranian, Shiâite Sufi orders in the twentieth century. It studies their comparative social development in relation to political regimes and explores the cultural repertoires that Sufis have used to cope with these.
The introductory part examines the interpretation and the development, until the end of the Qajar era, of Iranian Sufism. The second part explores Sufism in the Pahlavi era. The third part deals with the Sufi orders in the Islamic Republic. The fourth part provides afterthoughts on the relations between Sufi cultural repertoires and civil society.
Because of its unique archival and field material, Mystic Regimes is especially important for scholars in Iranian and Sufi studies.
The introductory part examines the interpretation and the development, until the end of the Qajar era, of Iranian Sufism. The second part explores Sufism in the Pahlavi era. The third part deals with the Sufi orders in the Islamic Republic. The fourth part provides afterthoughts on the relations between Sufi cultural repertoires and civil society.
Because of its unique archival and field material, Mystic Regimes is especially important for scholars in Iranian and Sufi studies.
Matthijs van den Bos, Ph.D. (2000) in Social Science, University of Amsterdam, is currently a Research Fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden. He graduated in Anthropology and Iranian Studies.
All those interested in Sufism and Sufi Studies, religious minorities, modern Iranian history, Shiâism and Shiâite spirituality, and more generally Ethnography/Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science.