The Renaissance of Shi'i Islam : : Facets of Thought and Practice / / Janis Esots, Farhad Daftary.

• Superior document: Shi'i heritage series
• VerfasserIn: Esots, Janis,; Daftary, Farhad,
• TeilnehmendeR: Daftary, Farhad,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Shi'i heritage series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 pages).

The renaissance of Shi'i Islam began in the 9th/15th century when the Ismailis experienced the Anjudan revival and Twelver Shi'i traditions were also renewed. This renaissance gained further strength when the Safavids succeeded in establishing a state in the early decades of the 10th/16th...

Table of Contents

• Preface, Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK and Janis Esots, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK1. The Shi'i Milieu of Post-Mongol Iran, Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKPart One: Ismailism in the Context of Shi'i-Sufi Coalescence 2. Prose and Poetry: A Glance at Post-Alamut Nizari Ismaili Literature in Iran, Seyyid Jalal Badakhchani, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK3. The Scent of the Scarlet Pimpernels: Ismaili Leaders of the 11th/17th Century, Shafique N. Virani, University of Toronto, Canada4. Ismaili Doctrines in a Late Safavid Author: Quotations from the Risala al-Jami'a in Qutb al-Din Ashkivari's Mahbub al-Qulub, Daniel De Smet, KU Leuven, BelgiumPart Two: Shi'i Messianism and Lettrism5. The Resurrection of Shah Isma'il in Alevi-Bektashi Literature, Amelia Gallagher, Niagara University, US6. Hurufism after Fadl Allah's Execution: Revisiting Sahifat al-Istikhlas, Fatih Usluer, Ankara University, Turkey7. Nuqtavis, Safavids and Shi'ism in the 9th-11th/15th-17th Centuries, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKPart Three: Hadith and Fiqh8. Majlisi the Second, Ambiguous Architect of the Shi'i Revival in Safavid Iran, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France9. The Akhbari Movement and Literary Production in Safavid Iran , Devin J. Stewart, Emory University, US10. Postclassical Legal Commentaries: The Elaboration of Tradition in Safavid Twelver Shi'ism, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK11. A View from the Periphery: The Ijaza as Polemic in Early 10th/16th-century Twelver Shi'ism, Andrew J. Newman, The University of Edinburgh, UKPart Four: Philosophy, Theology and Intellectual History12. Mir Damad's 'Wisdom of the Right Side' (al-hikma al-yamaniyya), Janis Esots, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK13. Some Aspects of the Reception of Suhrawardi's Philosophy by Mulla Sadra, Christian Jambet, Independent scholar, France14. A Symphonia of Shi'ism, Philosophy and Sufism from the Late Safavid Period: Qutb al-Din Ashkivari's Epistle on the Imaginal World (written in 1077/1667), Mathieu Terrier, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK15. Late Antique Intellectualism in Medieval Islam: The Shiraz Circle and the Revival of Ancient and Islamic Knowledge, Ahab Bdaiwi, Leiden University, The Netherlands16. Shah Tahmasp's View of Nature, as Reflected in his Shahnama, Sheila R. Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USSelected Bibliography.