Walayah in the Fa¿imid Isma¿ili Tradition (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 Fäimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin'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 Fäimid 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 Fäimid 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Senior Fellow at St. John's College, the University of Manitoba, Canada.
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- Autor: Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
- 2017, 376 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- ISBN-10: 1438466285
- ISBN-13: 9781438466286
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.07.2017
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