Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in IslamWhat are the mechanisms of change and adaptation in Islam, regarded as a living organism, and how do they work? How did these mechanisms preserve the integrity of Muslim civilization through the innumerable hazards, divisions and devastations of time? From the perspective of history and intellectual history, this book focuses on a significant, though still largely under studied, aspect of this immense issue, namely, the role of mystical and messianic ferment in the construction and re-construction of religious authority in Islam. Sixteen scholars address this topic with a variety of approaches, providing a fresh outlook on the trends underlying the evolution of Muslim societies and, in particular, the emergence and consolidation of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires. Contributors include: Abbas Amanat, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Paul Ballanfat, Shahzad Bashir, Ilker Evrim Binbaş, Daniel De Smet, Devin DeWeese, Armin Eschraghi, Omid Ghaemmaghami, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Todd Lawson, Pierre Lory, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, A. Azfar Moin, William F. Tucker. |
Contents
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Part One Languages Concepts and Symbols | 21 |
Remarques sur les shaṭaḥāt de Abū Bakr alShiblī | 23 |
Tafsīr as Experience in an Early Work by the Bāb | 39 |
La transmigration des âmes Une notion problématique dans lismaélisme dépoque fatimide | 77 |
Promised One mawūd or Imaginary One mawhūm? Some Notes on Twelver Shīʿī Mahdī Doctrine and its Discussion in Writings of Bahā Allāh | 111 |
The Green Isle in Shīī Early Shaykhī and BābīBahāī Sacred Topography | 137 |
Mysticism Messianism and Universalism | 175 |
Ibn Turkas Lettrism as a New Metaphysics | 247 |
Mīrzā Iskandar Shāh Nimatullāh Walī and Sayyid Sharīf Jurjānī in 8151412 | 277 |
Ottomans Safavids and Mughals | 305 |
les MelāmīHamzevī dans lempire ottoman | 307 |
A Medieval Turkish Saint and the Formation of Vernacular Islam in Anatolia | 329 |
Symbolism and Materiality in Safavid Iran | 343 |
Persian Nuqṭawīs and the Shaping of the Doctrine of Universal Conciliation ṣulḥi kull in Mughal India | 367 |
Messianism Heresy and Historical Narrative in Mughal India | 393 |
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