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The Origins of Twelver Shīʿism in Iran
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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Religious Devotion to Political Secularism
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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Was Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani a Sunni or a Shi‘i?: An Examination of Bio-bibliographical Sources [PDF]
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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Conversions to Shiʿism in Italy and Editorial Ventures
This article presents an in-depth analysis of two interrelated topics, namely Italians’ conversions to Shiʿism and their contribution to disseminating knowledge about Twelver Shiʿism in Italy.
Minoo Mirshahvalad
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The Topography of Corporal Relics in Twelver Shiʿism
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 framework to discuss the importance ...
Sepideh Parsapajouh
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Between Mezhep and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere
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
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Bu çalışmada 982/1574 yılında İmâmiyye Şîası'na mensup bir âlim tarafından Farsça kaleme alınmış Fırḳa-i Nâciye isimli makâlât eserindeki fırka tasnifleri ele alınmaktadır.
Halil Işılak
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Bu çalışmada 11/17. asrın meşhur tasavvuf ve felsefe muhaliflerinden Muhammed Tâhir Kummî’nin (öl. 1098/1687) bildiğimiz kadarıyla İran kütüphanelerinde tek nüshası bulunan; tasavvuf, felsefe ve tıp gibi konularda verdiği fetvaları ihtiva eden Risâle-i ...
Halil Işılak
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The Reception and Transformation of Mulla Hossein Kashfi’s Mavāheb-e ʿAliyya in Early Safavid Persian Shiʿi Qurʾanic Commentaries: A Comparative Intertextual Analysis [PDF]
This article examines the reception, adaptation, and transformation of Mulla Hossein Kashfi’s Persian Qurʾanic commentary, the Mavāheb-e ʿAliyya, within early Safavid Shiʿi exegetical literature.
Mohammadreza Movahedi
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Surviving Persecution: Ismailism and Taqiyyah in the Centuries after the Mongol Invasion [PDF]
ʿAṭā-Malik Juwaynī concluded his History of the World Conqueror (Taʾrīkh-i jahān-gushāy) by celebrating the Mongol destruction of the Ismailis at Alamut. For many centuries, historians assumed the community had ceased to exist.
Shafique N. Virani +2 more
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