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Islam in Practice

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title	:	Islam in Practice : Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
author	:	Loeffler, Reinhold.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	088706678X
print isbn13	:	9780887066788
ebook isbn13	:	9780585088501
language	:	English
subject	Shih--Iran, Iran--Religion.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	BP192.7.I7L63 1988eb
ddc	:	297/.82/0955
subject	:	Shih--Iran, Iran--Religion.

Page ii The publication of this book has been partially supported by the Persian Heritage Foundation.

Page iii Islam in Practice Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village Reinhold Loeffler State University of New York Press

Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1988 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Loeffler, Reinhold, 1932- Islam in practice. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 1. Shi'ahIran. 2. IranReligion. I. Title BP192.7.I7L63 1988 297.820955 87-12175 ISBN 0-88706-678-X ISBN 0-88706-679-8 (pbk.) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4

Page v To Lloyd A. Fallers and Clifford Geertz

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 The Setting 7 The World Views 17 1. The Mullah: Uncommitted Formalism 17 2. The Former Landlord: Religion of Power 30 3. The Old Trader: Virtuoso Devotionalism 37 4. The Young Trader: Literal Zealotry 51 5. The Old Teacher: Idealistic Humanism 61 6. The Young Teacher: Rationalism and Orthodoxy 71 7. The Craftsman: Modernist Purism 78 8. The Representative of the People: Islamic Activism 91 9. The Prayer-Writer: The Problem of Efficacy 118 10. The Mystic: The Secrets of Control 128 11. The Old Hunter: Familiar of the Jinn 141 12. The Deep Believer: Belief as Knowledge 152 13. The Fundamentalist: Purist Orthodoxy 169 14. The Doubtful: Reason versus Tradition 175 15. The Calm: Grassroot Morality and Cosmic Harmony 182 16. The Pragmatist: Immanent Ritualism 191 17. The Mashhadi: Ritualism without Certainty 196 18. The Lower Peasant I: Low-Key Religiosity 202 19. The Lower Peasant II: Trustful Surrender to God 208 20. The Wealthy: Legitimization of Good Fortune 213 21. The Poor: Suppressed Revolt 219 The Effect of the Revolution 225 Theoretical Commentary 245

Page viii Toward an Epistemological Theory of Religion

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