TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexandrin,Elizabeth R.
TI  - Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī tradition
SN  - 9781438466286
AV  - BP194 .A339 2017
U1  - 297.8/22092 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Albany, NY
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Muʼayyad fī al-Dīn Hibat Allāh ibn Mūsá,
KW  - Shīʿah
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Sources
KW  - Fatimites
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Chiisme
KW  - Fātimides
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - fast
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - 640-1250
KW  - Égypte
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Walayah in practice -- The Majalis al-Mu'ayyadiyyah -- The sphere of walayah -- Sealing walayah and spiritual resurrection
N2  - Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history. In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā'īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imām, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin's work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī chief missionary al-Mu'ayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1078 CE), the concept of walāyah (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fāṭimid caliph-imāms were the heirs of walāyah and by proposing new definitions of the "seal of God's friends" (khātim al-awliyā' Allāh), al- Mu'ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism
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