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Heroism and Being-towards-Death: On Sacrificial Martyrdom in Contemporary Shiʿism [PDF]
Religions, 2023 This paper examines the philosophy of martyrdom, heroism, and death, with reference to Islam in general and Shiʿism in particular. This paper will be divided into two parts; the first will highlight the etymological and philosophical significance of the ...
Tareq Ayoub
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Shiʿi-Sufi Relations: The Imams of the Shiʿa in the Works of the Sufis of Khurasan [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2018 The relation between Shiʿism and Sufism has been long a matter of discussion among scholars, leading to a spectrum of views: some maintain that the two are identical, and, on the other extreme, some believe that they are totally divergent.
Mohammad Nasiri +2 more
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Making Shiʿism an Indian Religion: A Perspective from the Qutb Shahi Deccan [PDF]
ReOrient, 2020 Engaging an ethnohistorical approach, this essay examines how the Qutb Shahi sultans represented themselves locally and regionally through the use of built space, sponsorship of ritual and innovation of material ...
Karen Ruffle
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“God’s Favored Nation”: The New Religious Nationalism in Iran
Religions, 2020 A new religious nationalism has evolved in the Islamic Republic of Iran as a means to reconcile the contestation between the Persian ethnic (Iraniyat) and the Islamic (Islamiyat) elements, which has marked Iranian nationalism since its inception. The new
Meir Litvak
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The Origins of Twelver Shīʿism in Iran
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2021 The issue of the entry of Imāmite/Twelver Shīʿism into Iran is one of the most controversial issues in the History of Islamic Sects. According to the established general opinion, it is after the Safavids that the Shī’ite groups in question became the ...
Cemil Hakyemez
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Wasatiyya Discourse in Shi’i Islam: Ayatollah Montazeri and Human Rights Jurisprudence
Religions, 2022 There are significant differences of opinion about the successes and failures of Iran’s clerical government, but it can hardly be disputed that the experience has led to the flourishing of Shīʿī political thought.
Naser Ghobadzadeh
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Kader, 2023 As one of the main tenets of mainstream Shiʿa, the radjʿa doctrine is potentially open to radical interpretations. In the background of this belief, the concept of ghayba (occultation) with the special meaning attributed to it has vital importance ...
Aydın Bayram
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Religious Devotion to Political Secularism
Religions, 2022 By investigating the formation of Twelver Shīʿī theology, this article seeks to show that, despite being political and despite its advocacy of pure theocracy, living in the shadow of a secular state is part of Shīʿī religious doctrine.
Naser Ghobadzadeh
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Religions, 2023 Instead of arguing whether or not Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī (the Bāb, 1819–1850) and his writings are Islamic, this paper suggests that they are simultaneously Islamic and post-Islamic.
Zackery Mirza Heern
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Was Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani a Sunni or a Shi‘i?: An Examination of Bio-bibliographical Sources [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2019 Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī (d. 766/1365) was one of a triumvirate of scholars allegedly associated with Shīʿism – the other two being al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī (d. 726/1325) and Badr al-Dīn al-Tustarī (d. 732/1332) – who played an important role in shaping
Michael A. Rapoport
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