Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʻi Islam / edited by Rodrigo Adem, Edmund Hayes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adem, Rodrigo, editor.

Hayes, Edmund (Edmund Philip), editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Shii Islam : texts and studies ; volume 2.

Shii Islam : texts and studies, 2468-5879 ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shīʻah--Doctrines.

Shīʻah--Customs and practices.

Imamate.

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Faith and reason--Islam.

Mysticism--Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: The use and abuse of reason and esotericism in Islamic studies / Rodrigo Adem and Edmund Hayes

Early Ismailism and the gates of religious authority : genealogizing the theophanic secrets of early esoteric Shiʻism / Rodrigo Adem

The imam who might have been : Jaʻfar "the liar" between political realism and esoterist Idealism / Edmund Hayes

Explaining prayer : hadith and esotericism in al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq's ʻIlal al-Sharāʼiʻ / George Warner

The doctrine of Taʼwīl in Fatimid Ismaili texts / Paul Walker

Principles of Fatimid symbolic interpretation (Taʼwīl) : an analysis based on the Majālis Muʼayyadiyya of al-Muʼayyad al-Shīrāzī (d. 470/1078) / Tahera Qutbuddin

Esoteric Shiʻi Islam in the later School of al-Ḥilla : Walāya and apocalypticism in al-Ḥasan b. Sulaymān al-Ḥillī (d. after 1399) and Rajab al-Bursī (d. c. 1411) / Sajjad Rizvi

Sufi mysticism and Uṣūlī Shiʻism : practical authority in modern Iranian Shiʻi Sufism / Alessandro Cancian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 09, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʻi Islam

ISBN:

9789004465503

9004465502

Publisher Number:

40030703612

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