Al-Ghayba Occultation
Al-Ghayba Occultation

Author: Abu Abdullah Muhammad Bin Ibra Al-Katib

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781502464835

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This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Talee throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Talee (www.talee.org) is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shia School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims. Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought! In addition, Talee aims at encouraging scholarship, research and enquiry through the use of technological facilitates. For a complete list of our published books please refer to our website (www.talee.org) or send us an email to [email protected]

Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam
Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam

Author: Omid Ghaemmaghami

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9004413154

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The history of Twelver Shīʿī Islam is a history of attempts to deal with the abrupt loss of the Imam. In Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre- Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam, Omid Ghaemmaghami demonstrates that in the early years of what came to be known as the Greater Occultation, Shīʿī authorities maintained that all contact with the Imam had been sundered, forcing him to remain incommunicado until his (re)appearance . This position, however, proved untenable to maintain. Almost a century after the start of the Greater Occultation, prominent scholars began to concede the possibility that some Shīʿa can meet the Hidden Imam. Accounts of encounters with the Imam from the Greater Occultation soon began to appear, adumbrating their exponential growth in later centuries.

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam
Sociology of Shiʿite Islam

Author: Saïd Amir Arjomand

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-07-18

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9004326278

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Sociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism. Its bearers first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a hierocracy and finally a theocracy. Imamate, Occultation and the theodicy of martyrdom are identified as the main components of the Shiʻism as a world religion. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistenly developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shiʿism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the twentieth century. These studies highlight revolutionary impulses embedded in the belief in the advent of the hidden Imam, and the impact of Shiʻite political ethics on the authority structure of pre-modern Iran and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Mukhtar
Mukhtar

Author: Mahmood Husein Datoo

Publisher: Anchor Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780957098503

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In Praise of the Few. Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History
In Praise of the Few. Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History

Author: Etan Kohlberg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-05-06

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9004406972

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In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History is a selection of Etan Kohlberg’s research on Shiʿi Islam over a period of fifty years. It includes previously published articles, revised dissertation chapters, and a full bibliography of the author’s work. Divided into two parts, the collection begins with chapters from Kohlberg’s Oxford doctoral dissertation (1971) and related articles that investigate Sunni and Shiʿi views on the Prophet’s Companions and debates concerning the extent of their authority as sources of religious knowledge. Part Two traces the doctrinal and historical developments pertaining to various dimensions of Imāmī Shiʿi intellectual tradition such as theology, hadith, law, jurisprudence, and exegesis.

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam
Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 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.

Islamic Messianism
Islamic Messianism

Author: Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780873954426

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The first comprehensive study of the idea of the Mahdi, or divinely guided messianic leader.

Al-Imam - Al-Mahdi
Al-Imam - Al-Mahdi

Author: Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781494329327

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This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. You may read this book carefully and should you be interested to have further study on such publications you can contact us through www.shia.es Naturally, if we find you to be a keen and energetic reader we shall give you a deserving response in sending you some other publications of this Organization.

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9004435549

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The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world.