Safavid Iran (Paperback)
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Paperback. Safavid IranA Metaphysical Civilization Roberto Minichini What kind of civilization emerges when political power, philosophy, ritual, art, and historical memory are organized around a shared metaphysical vision?This book offers a comprehensive and original interpretation of Safavid Iran (1501-1736) as a metaphysical civilization: a historical formation in which Shi'ite theology, philosophical inquiry, artistic form, and collective ritual were integrated into a coherent structure of meaning. Rather than treating the Safavid period as a purely dynastic or confessional episode, the volume examines it as an ambitious civilizational project aimed at rendering reality intelligible under conditions of historical rupture and religious transformation.Drawing on philosophy, intellectual history, religious studies, art history, and ritual analysis, the book explores how Safavid Iran articulated a distinctive understanding of authority, justice, time, and existence. Particular attention is given to Shi'ite ritual life, especially the Muharram cycle, as a form of lived metaphysics in which abstract concepts were enacted through bodily repetition, narrative memory, and collective emotion. Philosophical developments associated with the Isfahan milieu and figures such as Mulla Sadra are examined not as isolated intellectual achievements, but as structural components of a broader cultural synthesis.Safavid Iran emerges here as a civilization that did not eliminate tension between power and critique, presence and absence, philosophy and popular devotion, but instead institutionalized these tensions within a shared metaphysical horizon. The result was a form of religious and cultural life capable of sustaining ethical clarity without triumphalism, and meaning without denying tragedy.Combining analytical rigor with conceptual depth, Safavid Iran: A Metaphysical Civilization offers a new framework for understanding early modern Iran and contributes to broader debates on religion, metaphysics, and civilization. The book is intended for scholars and advanced students of Iranian studies, Islamic philosophy, Shi'ism, and comparative intellectual history, as well as for readers interested in how metaphysical ideas can shape historical realities. About the AuthorRoberto Minichini is an Italian writer, poet, and independent scholar working at the intersection of metaphysics, religious studies, literature, and cultural history. Born in Mainz, Germany, in 1973 to an Italian father and a Croatian mother, he grew up within a multilingual and transnational environment that deeply shaped his intellectual orientation. He lives in Gorizia, a historically borderland city in northeastern Italy.His work focuses on Shi'ite Islam, Persian and Islamic philosophy, Safavid Iran, and the relationship between metaphysical thought and lived religious practice. Alongside his scholarly research, he is an established poet writing in Italian, with a body of work characterized by philosophical density and symbolic precision. For Minichini, literary creation and metaphysical inquiry constitute complementary modes of exploration rather than separate domains.He has pursued long-term independent study of Islamic metaphysics, Shi'ite spirituality, Sufism, and traditional cosmological systems, including symbolic and premodern forms of astrology, approached strictly as intellectual and cultural languages. His research consistently resists reductive political, sociological, or ideological interpretations of religion, emphasizing instead structural coherence, historical depth, and metaphysical seriousness.Safavid Iran: A Metaphysical Civilization represents the convergence of these trajectories, offering a synthetic interpretation of Safavid Iran as a historical experiment in civilizational integration. Th Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Safavid Iran (Paperback)
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- Roberto Minichini
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- Independently Published
- Année de publication
- 2026
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- Paperback
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- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798242188624
A Metaphysical Civilization
Roberto Minichini
What kind of civilization emerges when political power, philosophy, ritual, art, and historical memory are organized around a shared metaphysical vision?
This book offers a comprehensive and original interpretation of Safavid Iran (1501–1736) as a metaphysical civilization: a historical formation in which Shi‘ite theology, philosophical inquiry, artistic form, and collective ritual were integrated into a coherent structure of meaning. Rather than treating the Safavid period as a purely dynastic or confessional episode, the volume examines it as an ambitious civilizational project aimed at rendering reality intelligible under conditions of historical rupture and religious transformation.
Drawing on philosophy, intellectual history, religious studies, art history, and ritual analysis, the book explores how Safavid Iran articulated a distinctive understanding of authority, justice, time, and existence. Particular attention is given to Shi‘ite ritual life, especially the Muharram cycle, as a form of lived metaphysics in which abstract concepts were enacted through bodily repetition, narrative memory, and collective emotion. Philosophical developments associated with the Isfahan milieu and figures such as Mulla Sadra are examined not as isolated intellectual achievements, but as structural components of a broader cultural synthesis.
Safavid Iran emerges here as a civilization that did not eliminate tension between power and critique, presence and absence, philosophy and popular devotion, but instead institutionalized these tensions within a shared metaphysical horizon. The result was a form of religious and cultural life capable of sustaining ethical clarity without triumphalism, and meaning without denying tragedy.
Combining analytical rigor with conceptual depth, Safavid Iran: A Metaphysical Civilization offers a new framework for understanding early modern Iran and contributes to broader debates on religion, metaphysics, and civilization. The book is intended for scholars and advanced students of Iranian studies, Islamic philosophy, Shi‘ism, and comparative intellectual history, as well as for readers interested in how metaphysical ideas can shape historical realities.
About the Author
Roberto Minichini is an Italian writer, poet, and independent scholar working at the intersection of metaphysics, religious studies, literature, and cultural history. Born in Mainz, Germany, in 1973 to an Italian father and a Croatian mother, he grew up within a multilingual and transnational environment that deeply shaped his intellectual orientation. He lives in Gorizia, a historically borderland city in northeastern Italy.
His work focuses on Shi‘ite Islam, Persian and Islamic philosophy, Safavid Iran, and the relationship between metaphysical thought and lived religious practice. Alongside his scholarly research, he is an established poet writing in Italian, with a body of work characterized by philosophical density and symbolic precision. For Minichini, literary creation and metaphysical inquiry constitute complementary modes of exploration rather than separate domains.
He has pursued long-term independent study of Islamic metaphysics, Shi‘ite spirituality, Sufism, and traditional cosmological systems, including symbolic and premodern forms of astrology, approached strictly as intellectual and cultural languages. His research consistently resists reductive political, sociological, or ideological interpretations of religion, emphasizing instead structural coherence, historical depth, and metaphysical seriousness.
Safavid Iran: A Metaphysical Civilization represents the convergence of these trajectories, offering a synthetic interpretation of Safavid Iran as a historical experiment in civilizational integration.
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