Mostafa Vaziri
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5634232 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mostafa Vaziri |
| PRENOMES | Mostafa |
| SOBRENOME | Vaziri |
| ASSINATURA | VAZIRI M |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Iran as Imagined Nation
A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, as well as narratives of Iranian history, leading to the adoption of a broad nationalist construction of identity to suit Iranian political and ideological circumstances. This book argues that such a bro…
Jābir ibn Hayyān, Ibn Sīnā, and Mīr Fenderiskī
At times medieval Islamic scholars have been portrayed by historical writings in such a way that characterize them as conformist bearers of Islamic tradition. And yet an alternative interpretation based on circumstantial evidence aligns these vitally important figures in Islamic civilization more secular and with Buddhism than previously imagined. The analysis of circumstances related to the lives and intellectual approaches of certain individual…
Mānī, “the Buddha of Light”
Mānī was the founder of Manichaeism in the middle of the third century C.E., which was first developed and propagated in the Iranian world, and his new doctrine developed into one of the most widely spread religions in the world at the time. Mānī himself was the first person associated with his doctrine to come into close contact with Buddhism, but not the last. The assimilation of Buddhist practices and concepts by the Manichaean communities of …
Introduction to the Buddha’s Key Spiritual and Philosophical Concepts
This short chapter is an attempt to bring to light the key philosophical and spiritual teachings of the Buddha for the purpose of understanding how the power of his doctrine appealed to such a vast range of regions and peoples. In addition, this exploration will make it possible to understand Buddhism’s relationships with and influences on neighboring cultures and their doctrines. These included Manichaeism, Islam, and Sufism in Iran, each of whi…
The Legendary Story of the Buddha in Iran
Despite the fundamental dissimilarities between Islam and Buddhism, the two traditions have intermingled, often to the surprise of their adherents. The appearance of the legendary story of the Buddha in Muslim sources shows the exchange of wisdom between Buddhism, Islam, and Iran, even if that exchange was an accidental one. In Muslim historical and Shi‘i writings, Buddha (Budāsef) is introduced as a saint and a wise man alongside the Islamic Pro…
Buddhism during the Mongol Period in Iran
In the search for physical traces of Buddhism after the fourteenth-century fall of the Il-Khan Mongols in Iran, we find almost nothing with a concrete Buddhist signature, even though the Mongols’ first five rulers were Buddhist. This lack of evidence is due to the conversion of the late Il-Khans to Islam and the consequent eradication or transformation of traces of Buddhism; the only concrete Buddhist remnant we have from this period is in the wo…
Conclusion
This book has discussed various themes related to the interactions of the Iranian world with Buddhist culture in an effort to provide an alternative anthropological understanding of both worlds. There are, however, deeper Buddhist dimensions in the cultural life of Iran that need to be explored in the fields of cultural anthropology and as A. S. Melikian-Chirvani and David Scott have suggested, of archaeology as well. Not only what is buried unde…
The Early Spread and Influences of Buddhism in Iran
The fact that Buddhism influenced religious and cultural life in Iran is undeniable, but many of the traces of Buddhism in Iran were either eliminated or concealed by the competing religions of earlier Zoroastrianism (of the third through seventh centuries) and Islam that followed. In this chapter we provide a short account of Buddhist expansion, reconstructing and juxtaposing a series of interactions and cross-influences between the Iranian and …
Qadamgāh (Holy Footprints) and Monastic Caves in Iran
In the search for traces of Buddhism in Islamic Iran , no image of the Buddha survived in any form except in some miniatures. The temples and other physical evidences of the Buddhist past were either eliminated or converted into shrines or mosques during the Islamization of all non-Islamic components of religious culture in Iran. However, two aspects of Buddhist culture that remained were left intact during the process of Islamization and remind …
Nawbahār and Stūpa-Like Islamic Shrines
Buddhism continued to surface in areas other than footprint relics even centuries after its physical departure from Iran. The terms used for Buddhist monasteries and stūpas have survived as names of districts and villages in Iran even up to the present. The ceremonial rituals and architectural patterns associated with Buddhist stūpas also crossed over to the Islamic period. This chapter will explore both spheres of Buddhist influence in the conte…
Buddhism and Early Asceticism in Iran
The distinction between early asceticism and Sufism as briefly analyzed in this chapter serves two facets of understanding. First and most importantly, the culture of asceticism in eastern Iran (Khurāsān) was conceivably prompted and influenced by the preexisting ascetic Buddhist (as well as Manichaean) traditions based on its timing, geographical region, similarities, and circumstantial evidence. Second, it can be argued that the ascetic movemen…
Buddhism in Iran
Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought th
Iran as Imagined Nation
Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Buddhism in Iran
Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought th
Iran as Imagined Nation
Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Iran as Imagined Nation
Jābir ibn Hayyān, Ibn Sīnā, and Mīr Fenderiskī
At times medieval Islamic scholars have been portrayed by historical writings in such a way that characterize them as conformist bearers of Islamic tradition. And yet an alternative interpretation based on circumstantial evidence aligns these vitally important figures in Islamic civilization more secular and with Buddhism than previously imagined. The analysis of circumstances related to the lives and intellectual approaches of certain individual…
Mānī, “the Buddha of Light”
Mānī was the founder of Manichaeism in the middle of the third century C.E., which was first developed and propagated in the Iranian world, and his new doctrine developed into one of the most widely spread religions in the world at the time. Mānī himself was the first person associated with his doctrine to come into close contact with Buddhism, but not the last. The assimilation of Buddhist practices and concepts by the Manichaean communities of …
Introduction to the Buddha’s Key Spiritual and Philosophical Concepts
This short chapter is an attempt to bring to light the key philosophical and spiritual teachings of the Buddha for the purpose of understanding how the power of his doctrine appealed to such a vast range of regions and peoples. In addition, this exploration will make it possible to understand Buddhism’s relationships with and influences on neighboring cultures and their doctrines. These included Manichaeism, Islam, and Sufism in Iran, each of whi…
The Legendary Story of the Buddha in Iran
Despite the fundamental dissimilarities between Islam and Buddhism, the two traditions have intermingled, often to the surprise of their adherents. The appearance of the legendary story of the Buddha in Muslim sources shows the exchange of wisdom between Buddhism, Islam, and Iran, even if that exchange was an accidental one. In Muslim historical and Shi‘i writings, Buddha (Budāsef) is introduced as a saint and a wise man alongside the Islamic Pro…
Buddhism during the Mongol Period in Iran
In the search for physical traces of Buddhism after the fourteenth-century fall of the Il-Khan Mongols in Iran, we find almost nothing with a concrete Buddhist signature, even though the Mongols’ first five rulers were Buddhist. This lack of evidence is due to the conversion of the late Il-Khans to Islam and the consequent eradication or transformation of traces of Buddhism; the only concrete Buddhist remnant we have from this period is in the wo…
Conclusion
This book has discussed various themes related to the interactions of the Iranian world with Buddhist culture in an effort to provide an alternative anthropological understanding of both worlds. There are, however, deeper Buddhist dimensions in the cultural life of Iran that need to be explored in the fields of cultural anthropology and as A. S. Melikian-Chirvani and David Scott have suggested, of archaeology as well. Not only what is buried unde…
The Early Spread and Influences of Buddhism in Iran
The fact that Buddhism influenced religious and cultural life in Iran is undeniable, but many of the traces of Buddhism in Iran were either eliminated or concealed by the competing religions of earlier Zoroastrianism (of the third through seventh centuries) and Islam that followed. In this chapter we provide a short account of Buddhist expansion, reconstructing and juxtaposing a series of interactions and cross-influences between the Iranian and …
Qadamgāh (Holy Footprints) and Monastic Caves in Iran
In the search for traces of Buddhism in Islamic Iran , no image of the Buddha survived in any form except in some miniatures. The temples and other physical evidences of the Buddhist past were either eliminated or converted into shrines or mosques during the Islamization of all non-Islamic components of religious culture in Iran. However, two aspects of Buddhist culture that remained were left intact during the process of Islamization and remind …
Nawbahār and Stūpa-Like Islamic Shrines
Buddhism continued to surface in areas other than footprint relics even centuries after its physical departure from Iran. The terms used for Buddhist monasteries and stūpas have survived as names of districts and villages in Iran even up to the present. The ceremonial rituals and architectural patterns associated with Buddhist stūpas also crossed over to the Islamic period. This chapter will explore both spheres of Buddhist influence in the conte…
Buddhism and Early Asceticism in Iran
The distinction between early asceticism and Sufism as briefly analyzed in this chapter serves two facets of understanding. First and most importantly, the culture of asceticism in eastern Iran (Khurāsān) was conceivably prompted and influenced by the preexisting ascetic Buddhist (as well as Manichaean) traditions based on its timing, geographical region, similarities, and circumstantial evidence. Second, it can be argued that the ascetic movemen…
Buddhism in Iran
Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought th
Iran as Imagined Nation
A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, as well as narratives of Iranian history, leading to the adoption of a broad nationalist construction of identity to suit Iranian political and ideological circumstances. This book argues that such a bro…
History (12 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (12 obras) · Buddhism (11 obras) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (10 obras) · Ancient history (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (8 obras) · Islam (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras)