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Paperback. Etat : new. 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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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. This is a large-format edition, designed for readers who value substantial historical and literary studies in a durable and elegant format. "PUSHKIN AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN RUSSIA""Poetry, Empire, History, and National Culture" Alexander Pushkin stands at the point where literature, politics, empire, and national consciousness converged in early nineteenth-century Russia. This book places his life and writings within the historical world that formed them, showing how the emergence of modern Russian literature was inseparable from war, aristocratic culture, serfdom, imperial expansion, censorship, political rebellion, and the transformation of the Russian language. The study begins with the Russia inherited from Peter the Great and Catherine II: an empire governed by autocracy, sustained by noble service and serf labour, yet deeply influenced by European culture. It examines the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, the Russian campaigns in Europe, the formation of the generation that produced the Decembrists, and the political expectations that followed victory over Napoleon. Particular attention is given to the extraordinary linguistic world of the Russian aristocracy, where French often functioned as the language of education and society while writers such as Karamzin, Zhukovsky, and Pushkin were creating new possibilities for literary Russian. "Eugene Onegin" is examined as a detailed document of noble life: estates, debt, education, marriage, inheritance, social ambition, duelling, metropolitan fashion, provincial society, and the economic foundations of aristocratic leisure. Pushkin's southern exile opens a wider view of the Russian Empire. The Caucasus, Crimea, Bessarabia, Cossack communities, Muslim populations, military administration, and imperial expansion provide the historical setting for works such as "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray", and "The Gypsies". The political crisis of December 1825 and the reign of Nicholas I form another central part of the book. Pushkin's complicated relationship with imperial authority-combining censorship, surveillance, patronage, archival access, and personal contact with the emperor-is reconstructed without reducing him either to a court poet or to a simple revolutionary opponent of autocracy. His mature historical writings receive extensive treatment. "Boris Godunov", "The History of the Pugachev Rebellion", and "The Captain's Daughter" reveal an increasingly sophisticated interest in legitimacy, rebellion, popular violence, Cossack autonomy, peasant grievances, administrative weakness, historical memory, and the mechanisms by which states preserve or lose authority. The final years in St Petersburg are examined through money, publishing, court rank, marriage, debt, gambling, reputation, and aristocratic honour. "The Queen of Spades" and "The Bronze Horseman" become part of a larger analysis of metropolitan society and imperial power. The fatal duel of 1837 is reconstructed within its social context before the book follows the transformation of Pushkin after death-from celebrated writer to national cultural symbol, through nineteenth-century criticism, Dostoevsky's famous 1880 speech, imperial commemorations, Soviet canonization, and modern Russian memory. About the Author Roberto Minichini is a writer, poet, essayist, astrologer, and independent scholar. Born in Mainz, Germany, in 1973 to an Italian father and a Croatian mother, he works across several linguistic and cultural traditions. His interests include European and Russian literature, philosophy, political and cultural history, religion, esotericism, traditional thought, and the comparative study of civilizations. His writings combine historical reconstruction with close attention to texts, institutions, intellectual networks Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…