Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha

Author: Yasin T. al-Jibouri

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1491871318

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This book incorporates biographical sketches, historical and political events that deeply impacted the Islamic world at the time and at present. It introduces the reader to one of the great grandsons of the Prophet of Islam in a narrative and attractive way. The author employs academic ways in his presentation and research, and the reader will find himself intrigued by his immaculate style. Also, the Translator of this book has contributed to its text with a number of footnotes, providing Anno Domini dates to all Hijri Islamic years to which references are made throughout the book.

Imam Ali Ibn Musa Al-Ridha
Imam Ali Ibn Musa Al-Ridha

Author: Muhammed-Jawad Fadhlallah

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781547214990

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Imam Ali Ibn Musa al-Ridha is the 8th in the series of the Imams from the Prophet's Household in whose personalities all the criteria of greatness have been personified; so, they became its most magnificent example and most genuine fountainhead.His life was characterized by a somber tragic stamp from its grievous beginning till its painful end. Bitterness seldom parted from his soul during the periods he lived, i.e. the reign of Harun al-Rashid and the beginning of the regime of al-Ma'mun, the latter's son.

Al-Ma'mun
Al-Ma'mun

Author: Michael Cooperson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1780741901

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This accessible biography treats al-Ma'mum (786-833) as the product of his age, which was a formative period in the development of Islamic law and theology. It presents him in his many facets: rebel, rationalist, scientist, poet, politician, warrior, inquisitor, and self-proclaimed defender of the faith. Drawing on contemporary sources, some friendly and others hostile, it offers a comprehensive portrait of a fascinating figure in Islamic history.

Classical Arabic Biography
Classical Arabic Biography

Author: Michael Cooperson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781139426695

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Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 19:1
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 19:1

Author: Mahmoud Dhaouadi

Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

Published:

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13:

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The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt

Author: Arthur Goldschmidt

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781555872298

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This desk reference provides biodata, biographical sketches, and source material for approximately 500 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life.

Shi'i Islam and Sufism
Shi'i Islam and Sufism

Author: Denis Hermann

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 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.