The Rise Of The Ni Matullahi I Order

Author : Reza Tabandeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-06
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9087283679

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The Rise of the Ni'matullahi I Order by Reza Tabandeh Pdf

Sufi mysticism's surprising revival in nineteenth-century Shi'ite Persia. Islamic mysticism experienced a remarkable revival in nineteenth-century fundamentalist Persia. Sparked by the return of the Sufi master Ma'um Ali Shah from India, the Ni'matullāhī Order rapidly spread throughout the region amid fierce opposition from Shi'te clerics. Rise of the Ni'matullāhī Order charts the movement's unlikely rise across three generations of Sufi masters. Reza Tabandeh demonstrates how Ma'um Ali Shah, Majdhub Ali Shah, and Mast Ali Shah sustained the revival by reinterpreting classical Sufi teachings for a Shi'ite context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004465503

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Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam by Anonim Pdf

This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. It presents new frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Shiʿism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse.

Author : Seema Golestaneh
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024170

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Unknowing and the Everyday by Seema Golestaneh Pdf

In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to this process is ma’rifat, or “unknowing”—the idea that, as it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine, humanity must operate from an engaged awareness that it knows nothing. Golestaneh shows that rather than considering ma’rifat an obstacle to intellectual engagement, Sufis embrace that there will always be that which they do not know. From this position, they affirm both the limits of human knowledge and the mysteries of the profane world. Through ethnographic case studies, Golestaneh traces the affective and sensory dimensions of ma’rifat in contexts such as the creation of collective Sufi spaces, the interpretation of Persian poetry, formulations of selfhood and non-selfhood, and the navigation of the socio-material realm. By outlining the relationship between ma’rifat and religious, aesthetic, and social life in Iran, Golestaneh demonstrates that for Sufis the outer bounds of human thought are the beginning rather than the limit.

Author : Guity Nashat,Lois Beck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0252071212

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Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800 by Guity Nashat,Lois Beck Pdf

Combining scholarship from a range of disciplines, this collection of essays is a comprehensive examination of the role of women in Iranian society and culture, from pre-Islamic times to 1800. The contributors challenge common assumptions about women in Iran and Islam. Sweeping away modern myths, these essays show that women have had significant influence in almost every area of Iranian life. Focusing on a region wider than today's nation-state of Iran, this book explores developments in the spheres that most affect women: gender constructs, family structure, community roles, education, economic participation, Islamic practices and institutions, politics, and artistic representations. The contributors to this volume are prominent international scholars working in this field, and each draws on decades of research to address the history of Iranian women within the context of his or her area of expertise. This broad framework allows for a thorough and nuanced examination of the history of a complex society.

Author : Kathryn Spellman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782389408

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Religion and Nation by Kathryn Spellman Pdf

An estimated 75,000 Iranians emigrated to Britain after the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. They are politically, religiously, socio-economically and ethnically heterogeneous, and have found themselves in the ongoing process of settlement. The aim of this book is to explore facets of this process by examining the ways in which religious traditions and practices have been maintained, negotiated and rejected by Iranians from Muslim backgrounds and how they have served as identity-building vehicles during the course of migration, in relation to the political, economic, and social situation in Iran and Britain. While the ethnographic focus is on Iranians, this book touches on more general questions associated with the process of migration, transnational societies, Diasporas, and religious as well as ethnic minorities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004435544

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Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements by Anonim Pdf

The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world.

Author : Liyakat Nathani Takim
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814782972

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Shi'ism in America by Liyakat Nathani Takim Pdf

Provides an overview of America's Shi'i community, tracing its history, describing its composition in the twenty-first century, and explaining how they have created an identity for themselves in the American context.

Author : Oliver Scharbrodt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135975685

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Islam and the Baha'i Faith by Oliver Scharbrodt Pdf

This book explores the development of Islam and the Baha'i faith in the nineteenth century via the examination of two key reformers.

Author : Milad Milani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317544586

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Sufism in the Secret History of Persia by Milad Milani Pdf

Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity. Such resistance continues to manifest itself today with many looking to Sufism as a model of cooperation between East and West, between traditional and modern. 'Sufism in the Secret History of Persia' explores the place of Sufi mysticism in Iran's intellectual and spiritual consciousness through traditional and contemporary Sufi thinkers and writers. Sufism in the Secret History of Persia examines the current of spirituality which extends from the old Iranian worship of Mithra to modern Islam. This current always contains elements of gnosis and inner knowing, but has often provided impetus for socio-political resistance. The study describes how these persisting pre-Islamic cultural and socio-religious elements have secretly challenged Muslim orthodoxies and continue to shape the nature and orientation of contemporary Sufism.

Author : Linda S. Walbridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195137996

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The Most Learned of the Shiʻa by Linda S. Walbridge Pdf

The problem of who should succeed the Prophet has plagued the Islamic community since the time of his death. The Shiites have decided on a successor, but that does not solve who is the lawful marja (or grand ayatollah) of all the Shi'a.

Author : Nahid Massoumeh Assemi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755652662

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Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran by Nahid Massoumeh Assemi Pdf

The Takkiyya Mu'avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn 'Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shi'i Islam. Private takkiyyas built by social elites were a phenomenon of the Qajar period, with their construction motivated by a political quest for legitimacy. This book examines the intersection of art and architecture, popular piety, and the politics of legitimation. Through an examination of the building and its decorative programme, it addresses issues of patronage, Shi'i iconography and popular religious practices during the early 20th century in Iran. It further argues for the role of takkiyyas in creation of a sense of community and group identity; the formative stage of the emergent idea of nationhood at the time, amongst those who frequented them.

Author : Birol Başkan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317802044

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From Religious Empires to Secular States by Birol Başkan Pdf

In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the state has unfolded along different paths. Much, however, remains to be uncovered. This book provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of state secularization in three major Eurasian countries: Turkey, Iran and Russia. To capture the aforementioned variation in state secularization across three countries that have been hitherto analyzed as separate studies, Birol Başkan adopts three modes of state secularization: accommodationism, separationism and eradicationism. Focusing thematically on the changing relations between the state and religious institutions, Başkan brings together a host of factors, historical, strategic and structural, to account for why Turkey adopted accommodationism, Iran separationism and Russia eradicationism. In doing so, he expertly demonstrates that each secularization strategy was a rational response to the strategic context the reformers found themselves in.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405157612

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Sufism by Nile Green Pdf

Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world. Offering the first truly global account of the history of Sufism, this illuminating book traces the gradual spread and influence of Sufi Islam through the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and ultimately into Europe and the United States. An ideal introduction to Sufism, requiring no background knowledge of Islamic history or thought Offers the first history of Sufism as a global phenomenon, exploring its movement and adaptation from the Middle East, through Asia and Africa, to Europe and the United States of America Covers the entire historical period of Sufism, from its ninth century origins to the end of the twentieth century Devotes equal coverage to the political, cultural, and social dimensions of Sufism as it does to its theology and ritual Dismantles the stereotypes of Sufis as otherworldly 'mystics', by anchoring Sufi Muslims in the real lives of their communities Features the most up-to-date research on Sufism available

Author : Philip O. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030512149

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American Missionaries in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s by Philip O. Hopkins Pdf

This work explores the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the missionary activities of four American Protestant groups: Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, International Missions, and Southern Baptists. It argues that American missionaries’ predisposition toward their own culture confused their message of the gospel and added to the negative perception of Christianity among Iranians. This bias was seen primarily in the American missionaries’ desire to modernize Iran through education and healthcare, and between the missionaries’ relationship with Iranian Christians. Iranian attitudes towards missionary involvement in these areas are investigated, as is the changing American missionary strategy from a traditional method where missionaries had the final say on most matters related to American and Iranian Christian interaction, to the beginnings of an indigenous system where a partnership developed between the missionary and the Iranian Christian.

Author : Denis Hermann,Sabrina Mervin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Islamic law
ISBN : UCLA:L0103614624

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Bibliothèque iranienne by Denis Hermann,Sabrina Mervin Pdf