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...

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Other Authors:	Adem, Rodrigo (Editor), Hayes, Edmund 1978- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston Brill [2021]
Series:	Shii Islam: texts and studies volume 2
Subjects:	Sufismus Esoterik Schiiten Rationalität Shīʻah / Doctrines Shīʻah / Customs and practices Imamate Authority / Religious aspects / Islam Faith and reason / Islam Mysticism / Islam Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	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. "This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʻi Islam. Naive dichotomies of "reason" and "esotericism" in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shiʻi thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foster more exacting frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Twelver and Ismaili Shiʻism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse. The volume's contributions highlight the cross-sectarian genealogy of early Shiʻi esotericism; the rationale behind Fatimid Ismaili Quranic taʼwīl hermeneutics; the socio-political context of religious authority in nascent Twelver Shiʻism; authorial agency wielded by Imami hadith compilers; the position of esoteric Shiʻi traditions in Timurid-era Ḥilla; and Shiʻi-Sufi relations with Uṣūlī jurists in modern Iran"--
Item Description:	Includes bibliographic references and index
Physical Description:	268 Seiten
ISBN:	9789004464391