Unity in diversity: mysticism, messianism and the construction of religious authority in Islam

Conflicting synergy of patterns of religious authority in Islam / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- La transgression des normes du discours religieux : remarques sur les shaaat de Abu Bakr al-Shibli / Pierre Lory -- Religious authority & apocalypse: tafsir as experience in an early work by the Bab / Tod...

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Published in:Islamic history and civilization
Contributors: Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2014
In: Islamic history and civilization (105)
Edition:Online-Ausg.
Series/Journal:Islamic history and civilization 105
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam / Religious leader / Authority / Sufism / Messianism
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Messiah Islam
B Mysticism Islam
B Authority Religious aspects Islam
B Sufism
Online Access: Volltext (DOI)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Conflicting synergy of patterns of religious authority in Islam / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- La transgression des normes du discours religieux : remarques sur les shaaat de Abu Bakr al-Shibli / Pierre Lory -- Religious authority & apocalypse: tafsir as experience in an early work by the Bab / Todd Lawson -- La transmigration des ames. Une notion problematique dans l'Ismaelisme d'epoque Fatimide / Daniel De Smet -- Promised One (maw'ud) or Imaginary One (mawhum)? Some Notes on twelver Shi?i Mahdi doctrine and its discussion in writings of Baha' Allah / Armin Eschraghi -- To the abode of the hidden one: The green isle in Shi'i, early Shaykhi, and Babi-Baha'i sacred topography / Omid Ghaemmaghami -- The Kufan Ghulat and millenarian (mahdist) movements in Mongol-Turkmen Iran / William F. Tucker -- Intercessory claims of Sufi communities during the 14th and 15th centuries: 'Messianic' legitimizing strategies on the spectrum of normativity / Devin DeWeese -- Ummis versus Imams in the Hurufi prophetology: An Attempt at a Sunni/Shi'i synthesis? / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov -- The occult challenge to philosophy and messianism in early Timurid Iran: Ibn Turka's lettrism as a new metaphysics / Matthew Melvin-Koushki -- Timurid experimentation with eschatological absolutism: Mirza Iskandar, Shah Ni'matullah Wali, and Sayyid Sharif Jurjani in 815/1412 / Ilker Evrim Binbas -- L'ideologie d'etat concurrencee par son interpretation : les Melami-Hamzevi dans l'Empire Ottoman / Paul Ballanfat -- Kaygusuz Abdal: A aedieval Turkish saint and the formation of vernacular Islam in Anatolia / Ahmet T. Karamustafa -- The World as a hat: symbolism and materiality in Safavid Iran / Shahzad Bashir -- Persian Nuqawis and the shaping of the doctrine of "Universal conciliation" ('ulu'i kull) in Mughal India / Abbas Amanat -- Messianism, heresy and historical narrative in Mughal India / A. Azfar Moin
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004259031
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004262805