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Alireza Doostdar

Alireza Doostdar is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion at The University of Chicago Divinity School. His first book is The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Princeton University Press, 2018).

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Religion Dispatches
RD: What inspired you to write The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny? My book is about occultism and spiritual experimentation in modern Iran, and I examine these…
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