Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʻīlī tradition / Elizabeth R. Alexandrin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Alexandrin, Elizabeth R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Muʼayyad fī al-Dīn Hibat Allāh ibn Mūsá, -1077 or 1078.
• Shīʻah--Doctrines--Sources.
• Fatimites--Intellectual life.
• Fatimites.
• Intellectual life.
• Egypt--History--640-1250.
• Egypt.
• History.

Physical Description:

x, 366 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Isma'ili thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imam, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fatimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandria's work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fatimid Isma'ili chief missionary al-Mu'ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1078 CE), the concept of walayah (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fatimid caliph-imams were the heirs of walayah and by proposing new definitions of the "seal of God's friends" (khatim al-awliya' Allah), al-Mu'ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Walayah in practice
• The Majalis al-Mu'ayyadiyyah
• The sphere of walayah
• Sealing walayah and spiritual resurrection.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Alexandrin, Elizabeth R. Walayah in the Fatimid Isma'ili tradition.

ISBN:

• 9781438466279
• 1438466277

OCLC:

969438756