Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran

Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

• | Author: Kathryn Babayan
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2003
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780932885289
• | ISBN-10: 0932885284