Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam /

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam /

This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. Naive dichotomies of "reason" and "esotericism" in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shiʿi thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foste...

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Other Authors: Adem, Rodrigo (Editor), Hayes, Edmond (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.
Shii Islam: Texts and Studies ; 02.

Subjects:

Authority > Religious aspects > Islam.
Faith and reason > Islam.
Imamate.
Mysticism > Islam.
Shīʻah > Customs and practices.
Shīʻah > Doctrines.

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Call Number: BP194

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The use and abuse of reason and esotericism in Islamic studies / Rodrigo Adem and Edmund Hayes
  • Early Ismailism and the gates of religious authority : genealogizing the theophanic secrets of early esoteric Shiʻism / Rodrigo Adem
  • The imam who might have been : Jaʻfar "the liar" between political realism and esoterist Idealism / Edmund Hayes
  • Explaining prayer : hadith and esotericism in al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq's ʻIlal al-Sharāʼiʻ / George Warner
  • The doctrine of Taʼwīl in Fatimid Ismaili texts / Paul Walker
  • Principles of Fatimid symbolic interpretation (Taʼwīl) : an analysis based on the Majālis Muʼayyadiyya of al-Muʼayyad al-Shīrāzī (d. 470/1078) / Tahera Qutbuddin
  • Esoteric Shiʻi Islam in the later School of al-Ḥilla : Walāya and apocalypticism in al-Ḥasan b. Sulaymān al-Ḥillī (d. after 1399) and Rajab al-Bursī (d. c. 1411) / Sajjad Rizvi
  • Sufi mysticism and Uṣūlī Shiʻism : practical authority in modern Iranian Shiʻi Sufism / Alessandro Cancian.