The Law of the Imām: Realist Particularism and Proto-Uṣūlism in Formative Shīʿī Islam [PDF]
This essay investigates the jurisprudential philosophy of the ‘nomian esoteric’ strand within the early Jaʿfarī school, focusing on the constructed image of the Imām as presented by esoteric thinkers.
Ansar, Abdullah
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« L’imâm dans le ciel. Ascension et initiation (Aspects de l’imâmologie duodécimaine III) », in : Le Voyage initiatique en terre d’islam, Ascensions célestes et itinéraires spirituels, sous la direction de Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi, Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes-Études, Section des sciences religieuses, vol. CIII, Peeters, Louvain-Paris, 1996, pp. 99-116. [PDF]
L’A. recense et explore les versions shi’ites duodécimaines de l’ascension céleste du Prophète. Ces récits attestent « le caractère sacré de la walāya de ‘Alī ».
Jambet, Christian
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Self-defining through Faith: the walāya and barā’a dynamics among the early Ibādis
The Ibāḍī ethical principles reveal a rigorous conception of life and faith. Sinful actions entail the loss of the state of purity and render the sinner unfit to participate in religious rites.
FRANCESCA, Ersilia
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theatrical production includes a set of interrelated elements that complement each other in a complex process aimed at achieving the message of the play and communicating it to the audience. This research examines the aesthetic elements of the theatrical
Assist.Prof. Dr. Dalia Saleh Abdel Wahab Farah
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Tillier Mathieu. Salāma al-'Āmrī Nelly, Al-Walāya wa al-muğtamaʿ. Musāhama fī al-tārīḫ al-dīnī wa al-iğtimāʿī li-Ifrīqiyya fī al-'ahd al-ḥafșī. Préface de Hišām Ğayṭ. Ğāmi'at Mannūba, Tunis, 2001.
Tillier, Mathieu
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Powers of One: The Mathematicalization of the Occult Sciences in the High Persianate Tradition
Occultism remains the largest blind spot in the historiography of Islamicate philosophy-science, a casualty of persistent scholarly positivism, even whiggish triumphalism.
Matthew Melvin-Koushki
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TheCommunity of Friends of God: Comparative Theology and the Construction of an Inclusive Theology of Saints [PDF]
Thesis advisor: James W. MorrisLawrence Cunningham, a Catholic theologian, appraises the study of the saints as a neglected element in the Christian tradition, even within the Roman Catholic tradition where the veneration of the saints is one of its ...
Harmakaputra, Hans Abdiel
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Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’’s Religious Reform and Magic: Beyond the Isma‘ili Hypothesis
This article investigates the role of magic in the confessional identity of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā as it is articulated in the 52nd epistle on magic, and informed by the rest of their Rasāʾil (Epistles).
Saif, Liana, Liana Saif
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The Khojas of Kashgar name a Sufi lineage, which became a ruling dynasty in eastern Turkestan or present-day Xinjiang in western China. Founded by the Samarkandi spiritual master Ahmad Kāsānī (d.
Alexandre Papas
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