TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daftary,Farhad
AU  - Miskinzoda,Gurdofarid
ED  - Institute of Ismaili Studies.
TI  - The study of Shi'i Islam: history, theology and law 
T2  - Shi'i heritage series
SN  - 9781780765068 (hardback) :
AV  - BP193.5 .S78 2014
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan.
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
N1  - Papers resulting from a 2010 colloquium sponsored by the Institute of Ismaili Studies; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. History and Historiography; Introduction; Wilferd Madelung --; Reflections on the Expression din 'Ali : The Origins of the Shi'i Faith; Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi --; The Study of the Ismailis : Phases and Issues; Farhad Daftary --; Al-Maqrizis Connection to the Fatimids; Nasser Rabbat; Part II; The Qur'an and its Shi'i interpretations. Introduction; Meir M. Bar-Asher --; What Defines a (Pre-modern) Shi'i Tafsir? Notes Towards the History of the Genre of Tafsir in Islam, in Light of the Study of the Shi'i Contribution; Andrew Rippin --; The Tafsir of al-Hibari (d. 286/899) : Qur'anic Exegesis and Early Shi'i Esotericism; Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi --; The Empire Writes Back : Fatimid Ismaili Ta'wil (Allegoresis) and the Mysteries of the Ancient Greeks; David Hollenberg The Authority to Interpret the Qur'an; Meir M. Bar-Asher; Part III. Shi'i Hadith; Introduction; Etan Kohlberg --; Writing and Resistance : The Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Early Shi'ism; Maria Massi Dakake --; Pre-Buyid Hadith Literature: The Case of al-Barqi from Qumm (d. 274/888 or 280/894) in Twelve Sections; Roy Vilozny --; The Story of 'Pen and Paper' and its Interpretation in Muslim Literary and Historical Tradition; Gurdofarid Miskinzoda; Part IV. Shi'i law; Introduction; Mohyddin Yahia --; Renunciation (Zuhd) in the Early Shi'i Tradition; Christopher Melchert --; The Evolution of al-Qadi al-Nu'man's Theory of Ismaili Jurisprudence as Reflected in the Chronology of his Works on Jurisprudence; Ismail K. Poonawala --; The Theory of Mal among the Zaydis; Sayyid Zayd al-Wazir; Part V. Authority; Introduction; Andrew J. Newman --; 'Seeking the Face of God' : The Safawid Hikmat Tradition's Conceptualisation of Walaya Takwiniyya; Sajjad Rizvi --; The Role of the Imam-caliph as Depicted in Official Treatises and Documents Issued by the Fatimids; Paul E. Walker --; Minority Reports : Twelver Shi'i Disputations and Authority in the Buyid Period; Andrew J. Newman; Part VI. Theology; Introduction; Wilferd Madelung --; Early Imami Theology as Reflected in the Kitab al-kafi of al-KuIayni; Wilferd Madelung --; Al-Shaykh al-Tusi: His Writings on Theology and their Reception; Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke; Part VII. Rites and Rituals; Introduction; Gerald R. Hawting --; Ashura Rituals, Identity and Politics : A Comparative Approach (Lebanon and India); Sabrina Mervin --; The Luminous Lamp : The Practice of Chiragh-i rawshan among the Ismailis of Central Asia; Hakim Elnazarov; Part VIII. Philosophy and Intellectual Traditions; Introduction; Daniel De Smet --; Shahrastani's Hanif Revelation : A Shi'i Philosophico-Hermeneutical System; Toby Mayer --; Philosophising at the Margins of Shi'i Studies : Reflections on Ibn Sina's Ontology; Nader El-Bizri
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