Accusations of unbelief in Islam : : a diachronic perspective on takfir / / edited by Camilla Adang, Hassan Ansari, Maribel Fierro and Sabine Schmidtke.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization : Studies and Texts, Volume 123
• TeilnehmendeR: Adang, Camilla,; Ansari, Hasan, 1970 or 1971-; Fierro, Ma. Isabel; Schmidtke, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, [2016].; copyright 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 123.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The present volume—the first of its kind—deals with takfīr : accusing one´s opponents of unbelief ( kufr ). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents—either persons, groups or even institutions—as unbelievers who should be condemned, anathematized or even persecuted. Each case presented is placed in its sociopolitical and religious context. Together the contributions show the multifariousness that has always characterized Islam and the various ways in which Muslims either sought to suppress or to come to terms with this diversity. With contributions by: Roswitha Badry, Sonja Brentjes, Brian J. Didier, Michael Ebstein, Simeon Evstatiev, Ersilia Francesca, Robert Gleave, Steven Judd, István T. Kristó-Nagy, Göran Larsson, Amalia Levanoni, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Hossein Modarressi, Justyna Nedza, Intisar A. Rabb, Sajjad Rizvi, Daniel de Smet, Zoltan Szombathy, Joas Wagemakers.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Hassan Ansari , Maribel Fierro and Sabine Schmidtke -- 1 Self-defining through Faith: The walāya and barāʾa Dynamics among the Early Ibāḍis / Ersilia Francesca -- 2 Were the Umayyad-Era Qadarites Kāfirs? / Steven Judd -- 3 Denouncing the Damned Zindīq! Struggle and Interaction between Monotheism and Dualism / István T. Kristó-Nagy -- 4 Kufr et takfīr dans l’ismaélisme fatimide: Le Kitāb Tanbīh al-hādī de Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī / Daniel De Smet -- 5 The Vocabulary of “Unbelief” in Three Biographical Dictionaries and Two Historical Chronicles of the 7th/13th and 8th/14th Centuries / Sonja Brentjes -- 6 Takfīr in Egypt and Syria during the Mamlūk Period / Amalia Levanoni -- 7 Takfīr and Messianism: The Ḥurūfī Case / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- 8 The Qāḍīzādeli Movement and the Revival of takfīr in the Ottoman Age / Simeon Evstatiev -- 9 The takfīr of the Philosophers (and Sufis) in Safavid Iran / Sajjad Rizvi -- 10 The Cost of Condemnation: Heresy and takfīr in a South Indian Community / Brian J. Didier -- 11 The Sum of its Parts: The State as Apostate in Contemporary Saudi Militant Islamism / Justyna Nedza -- 12 “The Kāfir Religion of the West”: Takfīr of Democracy and Democrats by Radical Islamists / Joas Wagemakers -- 13 On the takfīr of Arab Women’s Rights Advocates in Recent Times / Roswitha Badry -- 14 Apostasy in the West: A Swedish Case Study / Göran Larsson -- 15 Essential Islam: The Minimum that a Muslim is Required to Acknowledge / Hossein Modarressi -- 16 Abandoning Prayer and the Declaration of Unbelief in Imāmī Jurisprudence / Robert Gleave -- 17 Society and Propriety: The Cultural Construction of Defamation and Blasphemy as Crimes in Islamic Law / Intisar A. Rabb -- 18 Literary Works as Evidence of Unbelief / Zoltan Szombathy -- 19 “Religions, Opinions and Beliefs are Nothing but Roads and Paths . . . While the Goal is One”: Between Unity and Diversity in Islamic Mysticism / Michael Ebstein -- Index.