Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps, Tables and Illustrations
- Transliteration table
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Resurrectional mediations: Shiʿa eschatology and photography
- Chapter 2 Mourning mediations: taʿziye performances and military
- Chapter 3 Therapeutic mediations: Shiʿa medical imagination and cholera
- Chapter 4 Spiritual mediations: Shiʿa demonology and telegraphy
- Epilogue. The semiotics of Shiʿa absurdism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps, Tables and Illustrations
- Transliteration table
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Resurrectional mediations: Shiʿa eschatology and photography
- Chapter 2 Mourning mediations: taʿziye performances and military
- Chapter 3 Therapeutic mediations: Shiʿa medical imagination and cholera
- Chapter 4 Spiritual mediations: Shiʿa demonology and telegraphy
- Epilogue. The semiotics of Shiʿa absurdism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Chapter
- Information
- Irrationalities in Islam and Media in Nineteenth-Century IranFaces of Modernity, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022