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Salvation and Destiny in Islam: The Shi’i Ismaili Perspective of Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani: Shi'i Heritage Series

Editat de Maria De Cillis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iul 2018
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesMedieval Islamic philosophers were occupied with questions of cosmology, predestination and salvation and human responsibility for actions. For Ismailis, the related notions of religious leadership, namely the imamate, and the eschatological role of the prophets and imams were equally central. These were also a matter of doctrinal controversy within the so-called Iranian school of Ismaili philosophical theology. Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (d. after 411/1020) was one of the most important theologians in the Fatimid period, who rose to prominence during the reign of the imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 386/996-411/1021). He is renowned for blending the Neoplatonic philosophical heritage with Ismaili religious tradition. This book provides an analysis of al-Kirmani's thought and sheds new light on the many layers of allusion which characterise his writings. Through a translation and analytical commentary of the eighth chapter of al-Kirmani's Kitab al-Riyad (Book of Meadows), which is devoted to the subject of divine preordination and human redemption, Maria De Cillis shows readers first-hand his theologically distinctive interpretation of qada' and qadar (divine decree and destiny). Here, al-Kirmani attempts to harmonise the views of earlier renowned Ismaili missionaries, Abu Hatim Ahmad b. Hamdan al-Razi (d. 322/934), Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Nasafi (d. 331/942) and Abu Ya'qub Ishaq b. Ahmad al-Sijistani (d. c. 361/971). De Cillis skilfully guides the reader through al-Kirmani's metaphysical and esoteric correspondences, offering new insights into Shi'i/Ismaili philosophical thought which will be of great interest to those in the field of Shi'i studies and, more broadly, to scholars of medieval philosophy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788314930
ISBN-10: 178831493X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Seria Shi'i Heritage Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers a translation and a thorough analysis of the eighth chapter of Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani's important work, Kitab al-Riyad

Notă biografică

Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series. She has authored Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi (2014) and has co-edited Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments (2016) as well as a writing a number of journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at SOAS and at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Shi'i esotericism and Ismaili philosophy.

Cuprins

List of AbbreviationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsNOTES ON THE TEXTINTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI'S THEORETICAL SYSTEM1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani's Influence: A Preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani's Understanding of the Intellect2. Al-Kirmani's Views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani's Cosmological Scheme4. The Human Soul and Providence5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition6. The Intellect's Knowledge of Particulars7. Correspondences between the alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-dinPART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI'S KITAB AL-RIYADOrigins and Nature of the qada wa'l-qadar Ddebate in the RiyadFasl OneFasl TwoFasl ThreeFasl FourFasl FiveFasl SixFasl SevenFasl EightFasl NineFasl TenFasl ElevenFasl TwelveFasl ThirteenFasl FourteenFasl FifteenFasl SixteenFasl SeventeenFasl EighteenFasl NineteenFasl TwentyFasl Twenty-oneFasl Twenty-twoFasl Twenty-threeFasl Twenty-fourCONCLUSIONBibliographyIndex