Suchergebnisse

Conflicting synergy of patterns of religious authority in Islam / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- La transgression des normes du discours religieux : remarques sur les shaaat de Abu Bakr al-Shibli / Pierre Lory -- Religious authority & apocalypse: tafsir as experience in an early work by the Bab / Todd Lawson -- La transmigration des ames. Une notion problematique dans l'Ismaelisme d'epoque Fatimide / Daniel De Smet -- Promised One (maw'ud) or Imaginary One (mawhum)? Some Notes on twelver Shi?i Mahdi doctrine and its discussion in writings of Baha' Allah / Armin Eschraghi -- To the abode of the hidden one: The green isle in Shi'i, early Shaykhi, and Babi-Baha'i sacred topography / Omid Ghaemmaghami -- The Kufan Ghulat and millenarian (mahdist) movements in Mongol-Turkmen Iran / William F. Tucker -- Intercessory claims of Sufi communities during the 14th and 15th centuries: 'Messianic' legitimizing strategies on the spectrum of normativity / Devin DeWeese -- Ummis versus Imams in the Hurufi prophetology: An Attempt at a Sunni/Shi'i synthesis? / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- The occult challenge to philosophy and messianism in early Timurid Iran: Ibn Turka's lettrism as a new metaphysics / Matthew Melvin-Koushki -- Timurid experimentation with eschatological absolutism: Mirza Iskandar, Shah Ni'matullah Wali, and Sayyid Sharif Jurjani in 815/1412 / Ilker Evrim Binbas -- L'ideologie d'etat concurrencee par son interpretation : les Melami-Hamzevi dans l'Empire Ottoman / Paul Ballanfat -- Kaygusuz Abdal: A aedieval Turkish saint and the formation of vernacular Islam in Anatolia / Ahmet T. Karamustafa -- The World as a hat: symbolism and materiality in Safavid Iran / Shahzad Bashir -- Persian Nuqawis and the shaping of the doctrine of "Universal conciliation" ('ulu'i kull) in Mughal India / Abbas Amanat -- Messianism, heresy and historical narrative in Mughal India / A. Azfar Moin

'Alī, son of Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin, is the only Companion of the Prophet who has remained to this day the object of fervent devotion of hundreds of millions of followers in the lands of Islam, especially in the East. Based on a detailed analysis of several categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi'ism is the religion of the Imam, of the Master of Wisdom, just like Christianity is that of Christ, and that 'Alī is the first Master and Imam par excellence. Shi'ism can therefore be defined, in its most specific religious aspects, as the absolute faith in 'Alī: the divine Man, the most perfect manifestation of God's attributes, simultaneously spiritual refuge, model and horizon. With contributions by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov & Mathieu Terrier Translated from French by Francisco José Luis & Anthony Gledhill