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Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition by Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition by Elizabeth R. Alexandrin
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Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition

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In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā'īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imām, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin's work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī chief missionary al-Mu'ayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1078 CE), the concept of walāyah (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fāṭimid caliph-imāms were the heirs of walāyah and by proposing new definitions of the "seal of God's friends" (khātim al-awliyā' Allāh), al- Mu'ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism.

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Elizabeth R. Alexandrin is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Senior Fellow at St. John’s College, the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Release date Australia
July 2nd, 2018
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  • General (US: Trade)
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Total Illustrations: 0
Pages
376
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152x229x25
ISBN-13
9781438466262
Product ID
28128890

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