Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam
Brill (Verlag)
9789004340480 (ISBN)
The history of Twelver Shīʿī Islam is a history of attempts to deal with the abrupt loss of the Imam. In Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam, Omid Ghaemmaghami demonstrates that in the early years of what came to be known as the Greater Occultation, Shīʿī authorities maintained that all contact with the Imam had been sundered, forcing him to remain incommunicado until his (re)appearance. This position, however, proved untenable to maintain. Almost a century after the start of the Greater Occultation, prominent scholars began to concede the possibility that some Shīʿa can meet the Hidden Imam. Accounts of encounters with the Imam from the Greater Occultation soon began to appear, adumbrating their exponential growth in later centuries.
Omid Ghaemmmaghami is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Near Eastern Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton.
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Style
Introduction
1 Approaches to the Question of Encountering the Hidden Imam in Sources in Western Languages
2 Outline of the Book
1 The Unknown, the Unseen, and the Unrecognized
1 The Hadith Compilations Attributed to al-Barqī and al-Ṣaffār al-Qummī
2 The Exegetical Corpus: The tafāsīr of al-ʿAskarī, al-Sayyārī, al-Fūrat, al-Qummī, and al-ʿAyyāshī
3 The Hadith Compilation of al-Kulaynī
4 The Hidden Imam: Unseen and Unrecognized
5 The Hidden Imam: Seen but Not Recognized
2 Hidden from All, yet Seen by Some? The Special Case of Three Hadiths
1 Hadith 1 (and Variants): “the 30 are never lonely”
2 Hadith 2: “[and] no one will know his location except the elite of his mawālī”
3 Hadith 3: “except the mawlā who is in charge of his affairs”
4 The mawlā/mawālī
3 “A Lying Impostor”
1 Ibn Abī Zaynab al-Nuʿmānī
2 Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq
3 The Final Missive of the Hidden Imam
4 “A Lying Impostor”
5 Al-Shaykh al-Mufīd
6 Al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā and His Students
4 From the Youth and the Stone to the Proliferation of Accounts
1 The Earliest Accounts of Encounters with the Imam in a Wakeful State
2 The “Invention” of a Tradition
3 The Proliferation of Accounts and the Consolidation of a Tradition
5 Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index of Quran Citations
Index of Quoted Hadiths
Index of People and Places
Index of Subjects
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Islamic History and Civilization ; 167 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 554 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004340480 / 9789004340480 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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