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The Shi’i Imamate: A Fatimid Interpretation: Ismaili Texts and Translations

Autor Sami Makarem
Hardback – 8 iul 2013
The Tathbit al-imama attributed to the FatimidCaliph-imam al-Manur (334-341/946-953) is animportant early ismaili treatise on the legitimacy of theimamate of Ali b. Abi Talib and that of the ismailiimams from among his progeny. As one of the earliestismaili works on this crucial and fundamental Shi'isubject it can thus be considered a major treatise onthe doctrine of the imamate.The Tathbit al-imama does not deal with the metaphysicalsignificance of the imamate. rather, itconcentrates on its legal and historical aspects, usingproofs derived from the Quran, Hadith and logicalarguments. in this regard, it is directed at the islamicpublic in all its different religious affiliations.in the way it discusses the necessity of the imamateitself, the right of the imams to the vicegerency of theProphet, and the validity of divine designation incontrast to election by the umma, it is likely that theTathbi al-imama could have also meant to serve as aguide book for the ismailis in legitimising the Alidstate ruled by the Fatimid Caliph-imams.This edition has been compiled from two manuscriptsof the Tathb?t, both of which are now in the collectionsof the library of The institute of ismaili Studies, withthe Arabic text carefully translated into idiomaticEnglish to retain the character and flavour of theoriginal text as much as possible.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780766799
ISBN-10: 1780766793
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Seria Ismaili Texts and Translations

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Professor Sami Makarem (1931-2012) obtained a BA in Literature and Philosophy in 1954 and an MA in Arabic Literature in 1957, both from the American University of Beirut (AUB), followed by a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1963. Twice Chair of the Department of Arabic Literature and Near Eastern Languages at AUB, he also served as director of its Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (1975-1978). He wrote over 20 books and numerous academic papers, including The Doctrine of the Ismailis (1972) and The Druze Faith (1974). He also edited and translated Abu'l-Fawaris A?mad's al-Risala bi'l-imama under the title of The Political Doctrine of the Ismailis ( The Imamate ), published in 1977.

Cuprins

An Editorial Note xiAcknowledgements xiiiIntroduction 1Translation of the Thabit al-imama13Select Bibliography 121Engliah Index125Arabic Text