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Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions

dc.contributor.authorCole, Juan
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-15T01:07:49Z
dc.date.available2020-08-15T01:07:49Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationJuan Cole, "Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions," Iran Nameh: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, vol. 40, No. 3 (2015)::88-117en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/156254
dc.description.abstractMirza Husayn ‘Ali Nuri (d. 1892), founder of the Baha’i religion in Iran and known to his followers as Baha’u’llah, responded in the late 1870s to questions about Hinduism (and Zoroastrianism) put to him by the Zoroastrian agent in Iran, Manakji Limji Hataria (1813-1890). Manakji’s questions about Hinduism are posed as a general problem of how to understand the varying doctrines and truth-claims of the great world religions, and this, too, is a question Nuri addresses here. I see a strong resemblance between Nuri’s way of speaking about the diverse theologies of previous religions and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s conception of “language games.en_US
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dc.subjectIranen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.subjectShiiteen_US
dc.subjectHinduismen_US
dc.subjectZoroastrianismen_US
dc.subjectBaha'i Faithen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophy of Religionen_US
dc.subjectLudwig Wittgensteinen_US
dc.titleWittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelHistory (General)
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanities
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156254/1/wittgensteinian.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.sourceIran Nameh: A Quarterly of Iranian Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-1474en_US
dc.description.filedescriptionDescription of wittgensteinian.pdf : main article
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dc.identifier.name-orcidCole, Juan; 0000-0002-0540-1474en_US
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