Introduction: the question of irfan in contemporary Iran -- Irfan in the pre-Safavid period -- The Safavid opposition to sufism -- The sufi response -- The invention of irfan -- The institutionalization of irfan -- Modernization of irfan -- Epilogue: irfan as mysticism?
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