The renaissance of Shiʻi Islam : : facets of thought and practice / / Janis Esots, Farhad Daftary, editors.

• Superior document: Shi'i Heritage Series ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Esots, Janis,; Daftary, Farhad,
• Place / Publishing House: London, UK : : I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Shi'i Heritage Series ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 399 pages) :; illustrations.

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, UK
• 1. The Shi'i Milieu of Post-Mongol Iran, Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
• Part 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, UK
• 3. The Scent of the Scarlet Pimpernels: Ismaili Leaders of the 11th/17th Century, Shafique N. Virani, University of Toronto, Canada
• 4. 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, Belgium
• Part Two: Shi'i Messianism and Lettrism
• 5. The Resurrection of Shah Isma'il in Alevi-Bektashi Literature, Amelia Gallagher, Niagara University, US
• 6. Hurufism after Fadl Allah's Execution: Revisiting Sahifat al-Istikhlas, Fatih Usluer, Ankara University, Turkey
• 7. Nuqtavis, Safavids and Shi'ism in the 9th-11th/15th-17th Centuries, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
• Part Three: Hadith and Fiqh
• 8. Majlisi the Second, Ambiguous Architect of the Shi'i Revival in Safavid Iran, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France
• 9. The Akhbari Movement and Literary Production in Safavid Iran , Devin J. Stewart, Emory University, US
• 10. Postclassical Legal Commentaries: The Elaboration of Tradition in Safavid Twelver Shi'ism, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK
• 11. A View from the Periphery: The Ijaza as Polemic in Early 10th/16th-century Twelver Shi'ism, Andrew J. Newman, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Part Four: Philosophy, Theology and Intellectual History
• 12. Mir Damad's 'Wisdom of the Right Side' (al-hikma al-yamaniyya), Janis Esots, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
• 13. Some Aspects of the Reception of Suhrawardi's Philosophy by Mulla Sadra, Christian Jambet, Independent scholar, France
• 14. 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, UK
• 15. Late Antique Intellectualism in Medieval Islam: The Shiraz Circle and the Revival of Ancient and Islamic Knowledge, Ahab Bdaiwi, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• 16. Shah Tahmasp's View of Nature, as Reflected in his Shahnama, Sheila R. Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art, US
• Selected Bibliography.