CiNii Books - Salvation and destiny in Islam : the Shiʻi Ismaili perspective of Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī

Medieval Islamic philosophers were occupied with questions of cosmology, predestination and salvation and human responsibility for actions. For Ismailis, the related notions of religious leadership, namely the imamate, and the eschatological role of the prophets and imams were equally central. These were also a matter of doctrinal controversy within the so-called Iranian school of Ismaili philosophical theology. Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (d. after 411/1020) was one of the most important theologians in the Fatimid period, who rose to prominence during the reign of the imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 386/996-411/1021). He is renowned for blending the Neoplatonic philosophical heritage with Ismaili religious tradition. This book provides an analysis of al-Kirmani's thought and sheds new light on the many layers of allusion which characterise his writings. Through a translation and analytical commentary of the eighth chapter of al-Kirm?n?'s Kit?b al-Riy?? (Book of Meadows), which is devoted to the subject of divine preordination and human redemption, Maria De Cillis shows readers first-hand his theologically distinctive interpretation of qada and qadar (divine decree and destiny). Here, al-Kirm?n? attempts to harmonise the views of earlier renowned Ismaili missionaries, Abu Hatim Ahmad b. Hamdan al-Razi (d. 322/934), Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Nasafi (d. 331/942) and Abu Ya?qub Ishaq b. Ahmad al-Sijistani (d. c. 361/971). De Cillis skilfully guides the reader through al-Kirmani's metaphysical and esoteric correspondences, offering new insights into Shi'i/Ismaili philosophical thought which will be of great interest to those in the field of Shi?i studies and, more broadly, to scholars of medieval philosophy.

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List of Abbreviations List of Tables Acknowledgements NOTES ON THE TEXT INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI'S THEORETICAL SYSTEM 1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani's Influence: A preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani's Understanding of the Intellect 2. Al-Kirmani's views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect 3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani's Cosmological Scheme 4. The Human Soul and Providence 5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition 6. The Intellect's Knowledge of Particulars 7. Correspondences between the 'alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-din PART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI'S KITAB AL-RIYAD Origins and Nature of the qada' wa'l-qadar debate in the Riyad Fasl One Fasl Two Fasl Three Fasl Four Fasl Five Fasl Six Fasl Seven Fasl Eight Fasl Nine Fasl Ten Fasl Eleven Fasl Twelve Fasl Thirteen Fasl Fourteen Fasl Fifteen Fasl Sixteen Fasl Seventeen Fasl Eighteen Fasl Nineteen Fasl Twenty Fasl Twenty-one Fasl Twenty-two Fasl Twenty-three Fasl Twenty-four CONCLUSION Bibliography

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