Shi'i Islam and Sufism

Shi'i Islam and Sufism
Title Shi'i Islam and Sufism PDF eBook
Author Denis Hermann
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 393
Release 2020-01-23
Genre History
ISBN 0755602307

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I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi'is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the supposed opposition between these two esoteric traditions in Islam by exploring what could be called "Shi'i Sufism" and "Sufi-oriented Shi'ism" at various points in history. The chapters are based on new research in textual studies as well as fieldwork from a broad geographical areas including the Indian subcontinent, Anatolia and Iran. Covering a long period stretching from the early post-Mongol centuries, throughout the entire Safawid era (906–1134/1501–1722) and beyond, it is concerned not only with the sphere of the religious scholars but also with different strata of society. The first part of the volume looks at the diversity of the discourse on Sufism among the Shi'i "ulama" in the run up to and during the Safawid period. The second part focuses on the social and intellectual history of the most popular Shi'i Sufi order in Iran, the Ni'mat Allahiyya. The third part examines the relationship between Shi'ism and Sufism in the little-explored literary traditions of the Alevi-Bektashi and the Khaksariyya Sufi order. With contributions from leading scholars in Shi'ism and Sufism Studies, the book is the first to reveal the mutual influences and connections between Shi'ism and Sufism, which until now have been little explored.

Shiʻi Islam and Sufism

Shiʻi Islam and Sufism
Title Shiʻi Islam and Sufism PDF eBook
Author Denis Hermann
Publisher
Pages 369
Release 2020
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 9780755602285

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Introduction: New Perspectives on Imami Shiʻi-Sufi Relations in the Modern and Pre-Modern Periods / Denis Hermann and Mathieu Terrier -- Part One: Alternatives to anti-Sufi Discourses in Pre-Modern and Modern Shiʻi Literature -- 1. The Defense of Sufism among Twelver Shiʻi Scholars of early Modern and Modern Times: Topics and Arguments / Mathieu Terrier -- 2. The Limits of "Orthodoxy"?: Notes on the Anti-Abū Muslim Polemic of Early 11th/17th-Century Iran / Andrew Newman.

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam
Title Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 276
Release 2021-08-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004465502

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This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. It presents new frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Shiʿism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse.

The Sufi Saint of Jam

The Sufi Saint of Jam
Title The Sufi Saint of Jam PDF eBook
Author Shivan Mahendrarajah
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 295
Release 2021-04-08
Genre History
ISBN 1108879497

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The Sunni saint cult and shrine of Ahmad-i Jam has endured for 900 years. The shrine and its Sufi shaykhs secured patronage from Mongols, Kartids, Tamerlane, and Timurids. The cult and shrine-complex started sliding into decline when Iran's shahs took the Shiʿi path in 1501, but are today enjoying a renaissance under the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran. The shrine's eclectic architectural ensemble has been renovated with private and public funds, and expertise from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization. Two seminaries (madrasa) that teach Sunni curricula to males and females were added. Sunni and Shiʿi pilgrims visit to venerate their saint. Jami mystics still practice ʿirfan ('gnosticism'). Analyzed are Ahmad-i Jam's biography and hagiography; marketing to sultans of Ahmad as the 'Guardian of Kings'; history and politics of the shrine's catchment area; acquisition of patronage by shrine and shaykhs; Sufi doctrines and practices of Jami mystics, including its Timurid-era Naqshbandi Sufis.

A History of Shi'i Islam

A History of Shi'i Islam
Title A History of Shi'i Islam PDF eBook
Author Farhad Daftary
Publisher I.B. Tauris
Pages 336
Release 2014-02-27
Genre History
ISBN 9781780768410

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I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Shi'i Muslims have played a crucial role, proportionally greater than their relative size, in furthering the civilizational achievements of Islam. Indeed, the Shi'i scholars and literati of various branches and regions, including scientists, philosophers, theologians, jurists and poets, have made seminal contributions to Islamic thought and culture. There have also been numerous Shi'i dynasties, families or individual rulers who patronized scholars, poets and artists as well as various institutions of learning in Islam. In spite of its significance, however, Shi'i Islam has received little scholarly attention in the West, and when it has been discussed, whether in general or in terms of some of its subdivisions, it has normally been treated marginally as a 'sect' or a 'heterodoxy'. The present book draws on the scattered findings of modern scholarship in the field, attempting to explain the formative era of Shi'i Islam, when a multitude of Muslim groups and schools of thought were elaborating their doctrinal positions. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the history of the Ithna'asharis, or Twelvers, the Ismailis, the Zaydis and the Nusayris (now more commonly known in Syria as the Alawis), the four communities that account for almost the entirety of the Shi'i Muslim population of the world. The result is a comprehensive survey of Shi'i Islam that will serve as an accessible work of reference for academics in both Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, as well as the broader field of the History of Religions, and also more general, non-specialist readers.

Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam

Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam
Title Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam PDF eBook
Author Mirjam Künkler
Publisher EUP
Pages 0
Release 2021
Genre History
ISBN 9781474426602

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This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, compares the role of women across time and space.

The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism

The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism
Title The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism PDF eBook
Author Zackery M. Heern
Publisher Oneworld Academic
Pages 240
Release 2015-07-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781780744964

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This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. However, this study focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East, which developed in direct response to the collapse and decentralization of the Islamic gunpowder empires. In other words, the book argues that the Usuli movement as well as Wahhabism and neo-Sufism emerged in reaction to the disintegration and political decentralization of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires. The book specifically highlights the emergence of Usuli Shi‘ism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The long-term impact of the Usuli revival was that Shi‘i clerics gained unprecedented social, political, and economic power in Iran and southern Iraq. Usuli clerics claimed authority to issue binding legal judgments, which, they argue, must be observed by all Shi‘is. By the early nineteenth century, Usulism emerged as a popular, fiercely independent, transnational Islamic movement. The Usuli clerics have often operated at the heart of social and political developments in modern Iraq and Iran and today dominate the politics of the region.