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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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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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Shīʿīsm, Sects, and Subject Headings [PDF]
The problem of bias in Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) has been the focus of numerous ‘radical cataloging’ studies. This study examines the use of the term sect as it is applied to the Shīʿī (or Shīʿa) branch of Islam in various KOSs including the
Jiwa, Nawazali A.
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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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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam [PDF]
This collective volume explores the figure of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islam and its pious transformations in later times. It illuminates the interplay of doctrine, literature and visual arts in the formation of a “Prophetic culture”.; Readership ...
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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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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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Continuity and change within the Persian Sufi tradition in later Timurid Iran : a study of Shams al-Dīn Lāhījī and his commentary upon the Gulshan e-Rāz [PDF]
This dissertation brings to light unrecognised patterns of historical change and transformations that occurred within the wider Persian Sufi community of later medieval Iran, more specifically within the later Timurid and Āq Quyunlū era (851-906/1447 ...
So, Morokoth
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Nīshāpūrī Scholars in The Formation of Sunnī Scholarship in The Eleventh Century [PDF]
The role of Nīshāpūrī medieval scholars in the tenth-eleventh century in the formation of Sunnī orthodoxy has been rarely discussed. The existing scholarship focuses primarily on the local history of Nīshāpūr and other parts of eastern Muslim world or ...
Widigdo, Mohammad Syifa Amin
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