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| ISBN: | 0585069727
9780585069722
079142121X
0791421228
9780791421215
9780791421222
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Translated from the French.
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| Summary: | The Imam, the Divine Guide, is the central point around which the Shi'ite religion turns. The power of Shi'ism comes from the actions of the Imam. This title is reserved exclusively for the sucessors of the prophets in their mission. The author shows that from the beginning of Shi'ite Islam until the tenth century, the Imam was primarily a master of knowledge with supernatural powers, not a jurist theologian. The Imam is the threshold through which God and the creatures communicate. He is thus a cosmic necessity, the key and the center of the universal economy of the sacred. The author presents Shi'ism as a religion founded on double dimensions where the role of the leader remains constantly central: perpetual initiation into divine secrets and continued confrontation with anti-initiation forces. Without esotericism, exotericism loses its meaning. Early Imamism is an esoteric doctrine. Historically, then, at the beginning of esotericism in Islam, we find an initiatory, mystical, and occultist doctrine. This is the first book to systematically explore the immense literature attributed to the Imams themselves in order to recover the authentic original vision. It restores an essential source of esotericism in the world of Islam. -- Back cover.
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| Other form: | Print version: Moezzi, Mohammad Ali Amir. Guide divin dans le shîìsme originel. English. Divine guide in early Shiìsm. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994 079142121X
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