Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʿi Islam
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Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʿi Islam
(Shii Islam: texts and studies, v. 2)
Brill, c2021
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This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shi'i Islam. Naive dichotomies of "reason" and "esotericism" in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shi'i thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foster more exacting frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Twelver and Ismaili Shi'ism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse.
The volume's contributions highlight the cross-sectarian genealogy of early Shi'i esotericism; the rationale behind Fatimid Ismaili Quranic ta'wil hermeneutics; the socio-political context of religious authority in nascent Twelver Shi'ism; authorial agency wielded by Imami hadith compilers; the position of esoteric Shi'i traditions in Timurid-era Hilla; and Shi'i-Sufi relations with Usuli jurists in modern Iran.
Contributors: Rodrigo Adem, Alessandro Cancian, Edmund Hayes, Sajjad Rizvi, Tahera Qutbuddin, Paul Walker, George Warner
Table of Contents
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Introduction: On the Use and Abuse of Reason and Esotericism in Islamic Studies
Rodrigo Adem and Edmund Hayes
1 Early Ismailism and the Gates of Religious Authority: Genealogizing the Theophanic Secret of Early Esoteric Shi'ism
Rodrigo Adem
2 The Imam Who Might Have Been: Ja'far "the Liar" between Political Realism and Esoterist Idealism
Edmund Hayes
3 Explaining Prayer: Hadith and Esotericism in al-Shaykh al-Saduq's 'Ilal al-Shara'i'
George Warner
4 The Doctrine of Ta 'wil in Fatimid Ismaili Texts
Paul Walker
5 Principles of Fatimid Symbolic Interpretation (Ta 'wil): An Analysis Based on the Majalis Mu'ayyadiyya of al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi (d. 470/1078)
Tahera Qutbuddin
6 Esoteric Shi'i Islam in the Later School of al-Hilla: Walaya and Apocalypticism in al-Hasan b. Sulayman al-Hilli (d. after 1399) and Rajab al-Bursi (d. c. 1411)
Sajjad Rizvi
7 Sufi Mysticism and Usuli Shi'ism: Practical Authority in Modern Iranian Shi'i Sufism
Alessandro Cancian
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