Early Philosophical Shiism

Early Philosophical Shiism
Author: Paul E. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1993-07-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521441292

The first book-length study of a leading tenth-century Ismaili theoretician Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani.

Abu Ya'qub Al-Sijistani

Abu Ya'qub Al-Sijistani
Author: Paul E. Walker
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1998-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781860642944

This work provides an overview of the contributions as a thinker of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani, a 10th-century missionary whose writings reveal him as both a philosopher and an exponent of the intellectual understanding of Islam. The old problem of the meaning of science and religion and their interaction as reflected in the thought of an Ismaili author from the early Islamic period is now interpreted within the framework that brings together ideas and obscure doctrines surviving only piecemeal from medieval Arabic books and treatises.

Shi'a Islam

Shi'a Islam
Author: Heinz Halm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Attempts to explain the bewildering events in the Middle East.

Transnational Shia Politics

Transnational Shia Politics
Author: Laurence Louër
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849042144

This book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are the offspring of Iraqi movements. The reshaping of the area's geopolitics after the Gulf War and the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 have had a profound impact on transnational Shiite networks, pushing them to focus on national issues in the context of new political opportunities. For example, from being fierce opponents of the Saudi monarchy, Saudi Shiite militants have tended to become upholders of the Al-Sa'ud dynasty.The question remains, however, how deeply in society have these new beliefs taken root? Can Shiites be Saudi or Bahraini patriots? Louer concludes her book by analysing the transformation of the Shia' movements' relation to central religious authority, the marja', who reside either in Iraq and Iran. This is all the more problematic when the marja' is also the head of a state, as with Ali Khamenei of Iran, who has many followers in Bahrain and Kuwait.

Studies in Medieval Shi'ism

Studies in Medieval Shi'ism
Author: Wilferd Madelung
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040238157

This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, and Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam). The first articles here examine legal and political aspects of early Shi`ism. The following studies relate to doctrinal views of the Zaydi imams al-Qasim b. Ibrahim al-Rassi and al-Natiq bi-l-Haqq and to Zaydi attitudes to Sufism. The final group focuses on the Isma`iliyya, their social and political history and aspects of their religious thought. A detailed index completes the volume.

Shi'i Islam

Shi'i Islam
Author: Najam Haider
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107031435

This book examines the development of Shi'i Islam through the lenses of belief, narrative, and memory.

History Of Islamic Philosophy

History Of Islamic Philosophy
Author: Henry Corbin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135198896

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Abraham Bar Hiyya on Time, History, Exile and Redemption

Abraham Bar Hiyya on Time, History, Exile and Redemption
Author: Hannu Töyrylä
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004276890

An analysis of Megillat ha-Megalleh by Abraham Bar Hiyya (12th c.) as a complete text in its historical and cultural context, showing that the work - written at a time when Jews increasingly came under Christian influence and dominance – presents a coherent argument for the continuing validity of the Jewish hope for redemption. In his argument, Bar Hiyya presents a view of history, the course of which was planted by God in creation, which runs inevitably towards the future redemption of the Jews. Bar Hiyya uses philosophical, scientific, biblical and astrological material to support his argument, and several times makes use of originally Christian ideas, which he inverts to suit his argument.

The Formation of Post-classical Philosophy in Islam

The Formation of Post-classical Philosophy in Islam
Author: Frank Griffel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2021
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190886323

In recent decades, scholars have come to recognize the importance of classical Islamic philosophy both in its own right and in its preservation of and engagement with Western philosophical ideas. At the same time, the period immediately following the so-called classical period has often been seen as a sort of dark age, in which Islamic thought entered a long period of decline. In this monumental new work, Frank Griffel seeks to overturn this conventional wisdom, arguing that what he calls the "post-classical" period has been unjustly maligned and neglected by previous generations of scholars.The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam is a comprehensive study of the far-reaching changes that led to a re-shaping of the philosophical discourse in Islam during the twelfth century. Earlier Western scholars thought that Islam's engagement with the tradition of Greek philosophy ended during that century. More recent analyses suggest that Islamic thinkers instead integrated Greek thought into the genre of rationalist Muslim theology (kalam). Griffel argues that even this view misses a key point. In addition to the integration of Greek ideas into kalam, Muslim theologians picked up the discourse of philosophy in Islam (falsafa) and began to produce books on philosophy. Books in these two genres, kalam and philosophy, argue for opposing teachings on the nature of God, the world's creation, and on the afterlife - even when written by the same authors. Griffel explains the emergence of a new genre of philosophical books called "hikma," works that stand opposed to Islamic theology and at the same wish to complement it. Offering a detailed history of philosophy in Iraq, Iran, and Central Asia during the twelfth century, together with an analysis of the way philosophy was practiced during this time, Griffel shows how works of falsafa, written by major Muslim theologians such as al-Ghazali developed step-by-step into critical assessments of philosophy that try to improve philosophical teachings, and eventually become fully fledged philosophical summas in the work of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. Griffel's examination of the different methods of kalam and hikma demonstrate both the coherence and ambiguity of a Muslim post-classical philosopher's oeuvre.A work of extraordinary breadth and depth, The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Philosophy or the history of Islam.

Philosophy in the Islamic World

Philosophy in the Islamic World
Author: Peter Adamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191084840

The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing full coverage of Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslims, and by taking the story of philosophy from its beginnings in the world of early Islam all the way through to the twentieth century. Major figures like Avicenna, Averroes, and Maimonides are covered in great detail, but the book also looks at less familiar thinkers, including women philosophers. Attention is also given to the philosophical relevance of Islamic theology (kalam) and mysticism—the Sufi tradition within Islam, and Kabbalah among Jews—and to science, with chapters on disciplines like optics and astronomy. The book is divided into three sections, with the first looking at the first blossoming of Islamic theology and responses to the Greek philosophical tradition in the world of Arabic learning. This 'formative period' culminates with the work of Avicenna, the pivotal figure to whom most later thinkers feel they must respond. The second part of the book discusses philosophy in Muslim Spain (Andalusia), where Jewish philosophers come to the fore, though this is also the setting for such thinkers as Averroes and Ibn Arabi. Finally, a third section looks in unusual detail at later developments, touching on philosophy in the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires and showing how thinkers in the nineteenth to the twentieth century were still concerned to respond to the ideas that had animated philosophy in the Islamic world for centuries, while also responding to political and intellectual challenges from the European colonial powers.