The Caliph and the Heretic

Anthony, Sean W.

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“…106 Ibid. 107 Ibid.,[90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106]. Schubel analyses Shiʿite performances in Pakistan using the anthropologist Victor Turner's theoretical framework as a toolbox.…”

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Emerging Patterns of Authority in Early Shiʿism: al-Mukhtār and the Aesthetics of Persuasion

Hylén

2019

Shii Stud. Rev.

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In this study the author examines some aspects of authority in the movement of the Shiʿite leader al-Mukhtār (d. 67/687). The notion of religious aesthetics as developed by Birgit Meyer is used as an analytical tool. It is argued that al-Mukhtār accomplished his political endeavour partly by introducing and controlling three “aesthetic forms” which functioned as “media” between the people and the deceased ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib: his claim to act on behalf of ʿAlī’s son Ibn al-Ḥanafiyya, whom he called al-mahdī, “the rightly guided”; his call to revenge for the killing of ʿAlī’s son Ḥusayn; and his exhibiting of a chair that he claimed had belonged to ʿAlī. The accounts of these three media, the author furthermore argues, have an historical foundation. Finally he holds that through these media al-Mukhtār was able to channel the needs and aspirations of many of the Shiites of Kufa into political action.

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Emerging Patterns of Authority in Early Shiʿism: al-Mukhtār and the Aesthetics of Persuasion

Hylén

2019

Shii Stud. Rev.

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Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī's Works

Mansouri

2024

Iran. stud.

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While the 7th/13th-century Persian Muslim scholar of the Mongol era ʿAzīz-i Nasafī actively engaged with Sufi traditions in his writings, he also introduced an overlooked distinction by drawing a line between Sufis (ahl-i taṣavvuf) and monists (ahl-i vaḥdat), aligning himself with the latter. This paper argues that Nasafī's clear differentiation between these two groups reflects broader transformations in the intellectual landscape of the Persianate Mongol world. These changes marked the emergence of new modes of thought not easily explainable by the established linguistic conventions of classical Sufism. Consequently, Nasafī's works serve as a window into the intellectual and linguistic challenges faced by Muslim intellectuals as they endeavored to shape the pre-modern and early modern Islamic cosmopolis (7th/13th–9th/15th centuries), revealing points of convergence and divergence with their intellectual predecessors.

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Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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The Caliph and the Heretic

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Emerging Patterns of Authority in Early Shiʿism: al-Mukhtār and the Aesthetics of Persuasion

Emerging Patterns of Authority in Early Shiʿism: al-Mukhtār and the Aesthetics of Persuasion

Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī's Works

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