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Author :Elizabeth R. Alexandrin Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :1438466285 Total Pages :378 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition by : Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
Download or read book Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition written by Elizabeth R. Alexandrin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history. In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā‘īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imām, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin’s work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fāṭimid Ismā‘īlī chief missionary al-Mu’ayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1078 CE), the concept of walāyah (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fāṭimid caliph-imāms were the heirs of walāyah and by proposing new definitions of the “seal of God’s friends” (khātim al-awliyā’ Allāh), al- Mu’ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism. Elizabeth R. Alexandrin is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Senior Fellow at St. John’s College, the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Book Synopsis Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition by : Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
Download or read book Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition written by Elizabeth R. Alexandrin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history. In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā'īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imām, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin's work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī chief missionary al-Mu'ayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1078 CE), the concept of walāyah (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fāṭimid caliph-imām's were the heirs of walāyah and by proposing new definitions of the "seal of God's friends" (khātim al-awliyā' Allāh), al- Mu'ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism.
Book Synopsis Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought by : Farhad Daftary
Download or read book Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought written by Farhad Daftary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents scholarship on Isma`ili history and thought from leading authorities in the field.
Book Synopsis Voices of Islam by : Virginia G. Blakemore-Henry
Download or read book Voices of Islam written by Virginia G. Blakemore-Henry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 1397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite frequent and extensive publications on Islam, very few Americans, indeed very few non-Muslims, truly understand the faith or the more than one billion adherents who live it. This set presents the diversity and richness of Islam, filling in the blanks and expanding our knowledge and understanding. Portraying Muslims in all their humanity and diversity balances the images that have bombarded society and presents the reader with a fuller and more accurate picture of the Islamic faith and what it means to live as a Muslim—in Muslim communities, and as part of a broader tapestry of pluralism in the nations of the world. What does it mean to share Muslim concerns? To experience Muslim spirituality? What is the difference between Sunni and Shiite sects? Why do Muslims pray so frequently? What is the reality of Muslim marriage and gender relations? What is the meaning of jihad and martyrdom to a practicing Muslim? What role do the arts and humanities play in modern Muslim life? How are Islamic children raised? These questions and others are answered in these volumes, which bring together Muslim voices from around the world, including men and women, scholars and laypersons, fundamentalists and progressives, and others from various cultural, political, and Islamic backgrounds. Personal experiences and poetry are included to illustrate the many different expressions of Islam.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of religion by : Lindsay Jones
Download or read book Encyclopedia of religion written by Lindsay Jones and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Islam by : compiled form Wikipedia entries and published by Dr Googelberg
Download or read book Islam written by compiled form Wikipedia entries and published by Dr Googelberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis كتاب اختلاف اصول المذاهب by : Abū Ḥanīfah Nuʻmān ibn Muḥammad
Download or read book كتاب اختلاف اصول المذاهب written by Abū Ḥanīfah Nuʻmān ibn Muḥammad and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory, which presents a legal model in support of the Fatimids’ principle of legitimate rule over the Islamic community. Composed as part of a grand project to establish the theoretical bases of the official Fatimid legal school, Disagreements of the Jurists expounds a distinctly Shi'i system of hermeneutics, which refutes the methods of legal interpretation adopted by Sunni jurists. The work begins with a discussion of the historical causes of jurisprudential divergence in the first Islamic centuries, and goes on to address, point by point, the specific interpretive methods of Sunni legal theory, arguing that they are both illegitimate and ineffective. While its immediate mission is to pave the foundation of the legal Isma'ili tradition, the text also preserves several Islamic legal theoretical works no longer extant—including Ibn Dawud’s manual, al-Wusul ila ma'rifat al-usul—and thus throws light on a critical stage in the historical development of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) that would otherwise be lost to history. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Book Synopsis The Empire of the Mahdi by : Heinz Halm
Download or read book The Empire of the Mahdi written by Heinz Halm and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 9th century, a secret sect of the Ismā‘īlīs -- known in the Middle Ages under the name of Fatimids -- arose to play a prominent role in the history of the Near East. Their supreme head today is the Agha Khan. In this mesmerising book, Heinz Halm describes the early history of the Fatimids, from the founding and spread of the secret society to the rise of the caliphal dynasty to power in North Africa and the founding of Cairo, their capital.
Book Synopsis Jesus and the Incarnation by : David Emmanuel Singh
Download or read book Jesus and the Incarnation written by David Emmanuel Singh and published by OCMS. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus and the Incarnation Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts In the dialogues of Christians with Muslims nothing is more fundamental than the Cross, the Incarnation and the Resurrection of Jesus. An open and honest conversation on these is a necessity as Christians all over the world meet with Muslims on a daily basis. Building on the volume on the Cross, published in 2009, this book contains voices of Christians living in various 'Islamic contexts' and reflecting on the Incarnation of Jesus. The aim of these reflections is constructive and the hope is that the papers weaved around the notion of 'the Word' will not only promote dialogue among Christians on the roles of the Person and the Book but, also, create a positive environment for their conversations with Muslim neighbors.
Download or read book Lines in Water written by Eliza F. Kent and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When asked to distinguish between different faiths, Mughal prince Dara Shikoh is said to have replied, "How do you draw a line in water?" Inspired by this question, the essays in this volume illustrate how ordinary people in South Asia and the diaspora negotiate their religious identities and encounters in creative, complex, and diverse ways. Taking the approach that narratives "from below" provide the richest insight into the dynamics of religious pluralism, the authors examine life histories, oral traditions, cartographic practices, pilgrimage rites, and devotional music and songs. Drawing on both ethnographic and historical data, they illuminate how, like lines in water, religious boundaries are dynamic, fluid, flexible, and permeable rather than permanently fixed, frozen, and inviolable. A distinct feature of the volume is its proposition of a fresh and innovative typology of boundary dynamics. Boundaries may be attractive or porous, firmly drawn or transcended. Attractive boundaries invite confluence while affirming the differences between self and other, whereas permeable boundaries facilitate exchanges that create new identities and in turn form new lines. Although people may recognize the significance of religious borders, they can choose to transcend them. Throughout this volume, the authors highlight the fascinating range of South Asian religious and cultural traditions.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Religion by : Mircea Eliade
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Religion written by Mircea Eliade and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the history, beliefs, concepts, practices, and major figures of religions past and present.
Book Synopsis Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus by : Michael Ebstein
Download or read book Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus written by Michael Ebstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus, Michael Ebstein underscores the many links that connect the intellectual world of the Andalusi mystics Ibn Masarra (269/883-319/931) and Ibn al-ʿArabi (560/1165-638/1240) to the Ismāʿīlī tradition.
Book Synopsis Ismaili Literature by : Wladimir Ivanow
Download or read book Ismaili Literature written by Wladimir Ivanow and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Between Revolution and State by : Sumaiya Hamdani
Download or read book Between Revolution and State written by Sumaiya Hamdani and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the most important writings of a tenth century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi al-Nu'man's works constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shi'i literature, an emergence necessitated by the Fatimids' transition from revolutionary movement to statehood, and by their desire to establish their authority as a Shi'i alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate. Al-Nu'man, already famous in the Fatimid era, produced a legacy which consists of a school of law, historical and biographical works, new interpretations of Ismaili doctrine, and the formulation of a ceremonial language achieved through his work on court protocol. Between Revolution and State represents a sophisticated and readable analysis of one of the seminal figures of the Fatimid period.
Download or read book Series A written by Ismaili Society and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forty Poems from the Divan by : Nāṣir-i Khusraw
Download or read book Forty Poems from the Divan written by Nāṣir-i Khusraw and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
