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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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European Shiʿism - peripheral engagement and religious retention
Book synopsis: The presence of Shiʿite communities in Western Europe dates to the late nineteenth century, with Britain as the primary destination for immigration, as well as notable communities developing in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the ...
Van den Bos, Matthijs
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and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere
, 2023 Despite the growth in scholarship on diverse religious communities in Turkey, little attention has been paid to Twelver Shiʿi Muslims. Since the founding of the Republic, the Turkish state's foundational secularist agenda has attempted to control and ...
Stefan Williamson Fa +3 more
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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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The media contest during the Iran–Iraq war:The failure of mediatized Shiʿism [PDF]
, 2020 This article explains why Iran was unsuccessful in its efforts to persuade Shiʿi Iraqis to support Iran during the critical early years of the Iran–Iraq war.
Kalantari, Mohammad
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The Topography of Corporal Relics in Twelver Shiʿism
, 2020 International audienceAbstract Because of the plurality of the venerated figures, the holy places of Twelver Shiʿism are numerous. This paper focuses on places of devotion that are supposed to contain bodily relics and presents them in a schematic ...
Parsapajouh, Sepideh
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Components of the Theory of Imamate in the Kitāb Akhbār al-Qāʼim by ʻAllān al-Kulaynī al-Rāzī (fl. 279 AH) with an Emphasis on the Imamate of the Twelfth Imam [PDF]
پژوهشنامه کلام تطبیقی شیعهThe doctrine of Imamate in Imami Shiʿism underwent a fundamental transformation during the second half of the third/ninth century, coinciding with the Minor Occultation (al-Ghayba al-Ṣughrā).
Hamid Bagheri
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Controversies in Formative Shiʿi Islam
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2017 Research into the formative period of Shiʿi Islam has come a long way in the last couple of decades. This welcome development has been inspired, in particular, by the work of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, whose main insight has been to posit that “ancient ...
Sajjad Rizvi
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The Imam's Return: Messianic Leadership in Late Medieval Shiʿism
, 2001 Although a majority of Shiʼi intellectual activity in the period of occultation (ghayba) has been carried out by scholars primarily categorized as mujtahids, there have also been individuals who have considered themselves divinely inspired beyond the ...
Bashir, Shahzad, Shahzad Bashir
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