Unity in diversity : : mysticism, messianism and the construction of religious authority in Islam / / edited by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 105
• TeilnehmendeR: Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 105.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (439 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

What are the mechanisms of change and adaptation in Islam, regarded as a living organism, and how do they work? How did these mechanisms preserve the integrity of Muslim civilization through the innumerable hazards, divisions and devastations of time? From the perspective of history and intellectual history, this book focuses on a significant, though still largely under studied, aspect of this immense issue, namely, the role of mystical and messianic ferment in the construction and re-construction of religious authority in Islam. Sixteen scholars address this topic with a variety of approaches, providing a fresh outlook on the trends underlying the evolution of Muslim societies and, in particular, the emergence and consolidation of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires. Contributors include: Abbas Amanat, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Paul Ballanfat, Shahzad Bashir, Ilker Evrim Binbaş, Daniel De Smet, Devin DeWeese, Armin Eschraghi, Omid Ghaemmaghami, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Todd Lawson, Pierre Lory, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, A. Azfar Moin, William F. Tucker.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Conflicting Synergy of Patterns of Religious Authority in Islam / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- La transgression des normes du discours religieux : Remarques sur les shaṭaḥāt de Abū Bakr al-Shiblī / Pierre Lory -- Religious Authority and Apocalypse: Tafsīr as Experience in an Early Work by the Bāb / Todd Lawson -- La transmigration des âmes. Une notion problématique dans l’ismaélisme d’époque fatimide / Daniel De Smet -- Promised One (mawʿūd) or Imaginary One (mawhūm)? Some Notes on Twelver Shīʿī Mahdī Doctrine and its Discussion in Writings of Bahāʾ Allāh / Armin Eschraghi -- To the Abode of the Hidden One: The Green Isle in Shīʿī, Early Shaykhī, and Bābī-Bahāʾī Sacred Topography / Omid Ghaemmaghami -- The Kūfan Ghulāt and Millenarian (Mahdist) Movements in Mongol-Türkmen Iran / William F. Tucker -- Intercessory Claims of Ṣūfī Communities during the 14th and 15th Centuries: ‘Messianic’ Legitimizing Strategies on the Spectrum of Normativity / Devin DeWeese -- Ummīs versus Imāms in the Ḥurūfī Prophetology: An Attempt at a Sunnī/Shīʿī 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: Mīrzā Iskandar, Shāh Niʿmatullāh Walī, and Sayyid Sharīf Jurjānī in 815/1412 / İlker Evrim Binbaş -- L’idéologie d’État concurrencée par son interprétation : les Melāmī-Hamzevī dans l’empire ottoman / Paul Ballanfat -- Kaygusuz Abdal: A Medieval 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 Nuqṭawīs and the Shaping of the Doctrine of “Universal Conciliation” (ṣulḥ-i kull) in Mughal India / Abbas Amanat -- Messianism, Heresy and Historical Narrative in Mughal India / A. Azfar Moin -- Index.