Controversies in formative Shiʻi Islam : the Ghulat Muslims and their beliefs /
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| Author / Creator: | Asatryan, Mushegh, author. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2017. |
| Description: | xviii, 206 pages illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Shiʻi heritage series ; 4 Shi'i heritage series ; 4. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10989560 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Note on Transliteration and Usage
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Kitab al-haft wa'l-azilla: a Textual Analysis
- The Ghulat Corpus
- Kitab al-haft wa'l-azilla: an Introduction
- A Note on the Editions
- Layer 1. Chapters 1-8
- Layer 2. Chapters 25, 33-35 and 37
- Layer 3. Chapters 42-45 and 47
- Layer 4. Chapters 53-57
- Layer 5. Chapters 23, 38-41, the 'Narrative Layer'
- Layer 6. Chapters 10-11, 12-15 and 16
- Layer 7. Chapters 60 and 61
- Layer 8. Chapter 59, Quotation from Kitab al-kashf?
- Layer 9. Chapters 62-64, Quotation from Kitab al-kursi
- Layer 10. Chapters 65 and 66, Kitab al-ashbah wa'l-azilla
- Layer 11. Chapter 67
- 2. The Early Ghulat and their Textual Milieu
- Mufaddal al-Ju'fi and Literary Activity among the Early Ghulat
- Mufaddal b. 'Umar al-Ju'fi and the Kufan Ghulat
- Mufaddal and the Imams
- Other Ghulat Authors and the Earliest Layers of Kitab al-haft
- The 'azilla Group'
- Common Features
- The Authorship and Dating of the 'azilla Group'
- 3. Polemics and Authority in the 3rd/9th Century
- Inter-communal Polemics in the 3rd/9th Century
- Kitab al-haft and Ghulat Literature in the 3rd/9th Century
- Texts of the 'azilla Group'
- Kitab al-tawhid and Letter Symbolism
- The Metaphorical Interpretation of Religious Duties and Kitab al-ashkhas
- Ishaq al-Ahmar al-Nakha'i and his Writings
- The Ghulat during the Minor Occultation
- Delegation or Divinisation?
- The Crisis of Authority and the Role of the Gates
- Ghulat Literature in the 3rd/9th Century: a Broader Picture
- 4. Ghulat Literature among the Nusayris in Syria
- The Ghulat between Iraq and Syria
- Kitab al-haft wa'l-azilla and Ghulat Literature in Syria
- 5. Constructing a Universe
- Creation, the Fall and the Fate of Human Beings
- Kitab al-sirat
- Kitab al-haft and Kitab al-ashbah
- Kitab al-azilla
- The Cham of Being
- Transmigration and the Dark World of Matter
- Divine Man and Man of God
- Antinomianism and the Esoteric Meaning of Religions Duties
- 6. Constructing a Community
- 'Thou shalt not Claim Hashimite Kinship!': the Ghulat and the 'Abbasids
- Purity of Birth, Social Boundaries and the "World of Mixing'
- Appendix: Ghulat Works Surviving in Fragments
- Bibliography
- Index