Unknowing and the EverydayIn Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to this process is marifat, or unknowingthe idea that, as it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine, humanity must operate from an engaged awareness that it knows nothing. Golestaneh shows that rather than considering marifat an obstacle to intellectual engagement, Sufis embrace that there will always be that