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The Visual Culture of Iranian Twelver Shiʿism in the Qajar Period

Shii Studies Review, 2019
The visual culture of the Iranian Twelver Shiʿa is documented in a variety of media, ranging from manuscripts and lithographed books via tilework and wallpaintings to lacquerwork, reverse images on glass, and the canvasses of popular storytellers ...
U. Marzolph
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Casket of Light, Padlocked with Light: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī, Ahl al-Bayt, and Shiʿi Philosophical Esotericism

Shii Studies Review, 2023
This article examines the views of the Twelver philosopher Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī (d. ca. 787/1385) regarding the prophetic family (ahl al-bayt), their connection with the initiatory robe (khirqa), and their status as “those firmly rooted in knowledge” (al-
Mohammad Amin Mansouri
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Review of Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shiʿism, 850–950 CE

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Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shiʿism, 850–950 CE. By Edmund Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 247. $99.99.
H. Abdulsater
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Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī (d. ca. 787/1385) and Ismailism

STUDIA ISLAMIKA, 2022
Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī (d. ca. 787/1385) was a significant Twelver Shiʿi philosopher. This paper argues that his work reveals major similarities with Ismaili Shiʿism in two crucial aspects: soteriology and negative theology.
Mohammad Amin Mansouri
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Ismaili Taʾwīl of Religious Rites: Interpretation of Obligatory Prayer in Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman’s Riḍāʿ fī l-Bāṭin

Shii Studies Review, 2022
In what was labelled “exaggerating” Shiʿism (ghuluww) by various Islamic orthodoxies (Twelver Shiʿism, Sunnism, and Fatimid Ismailism), it was commonly held that the Islamic prescriptions had to be interpreted as referring to specific persons (ashkhāṣ)—
Fârès Gillon
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Twelve Infallible Men: The Imāms and the Making of Shiʿism. By Matthew Pierce. pp. 272. Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2016.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2019
Matthew Pierce’s book presents a study of Twelver Shı ̄ʿ ı ̄ biographies of the twelve imam̄s; the twelve inspired, divinely appointed successors to Muḥammad.
George Warner
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Agents of the Hidden Imam

, 2022
In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden twelfth Imam.
Edmund Hayes
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Can Different Questions Yield the Same Answers? Islamic and Western Scholarship on Shiʿi Narrators in the Sunni Tradition

, 2020
Michael Dann observes that Sunni traditionists paid some attention to transmission from Shiʿi traditionists. Sunni commentators identified different parties of the Shiʿah with the suggestion that adherents of some (especially mere tashayyuʿ) were more ...
M. Dann
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Shiʿi Devotional Iconography and Patronage: Rethinking Kashan Lustre Ware

Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture
This article examines the iconography, epigraphy and patronage of an enigmatic Kashan lustre dish in the Freer Gallery of Art, proposing a new interpretative framework grounded in Shiʿi devotional culture.
N. Askari
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European Shiʿism

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 Netherlands and ...
Matthijs van den Bos
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