Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-34048-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 167, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghaemmaghami, Omid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Style

Introduction

1 Approaches to the Question of Encountering the Hidden Imam in Sources in Western Languages

2 Outline of the Book

1 The Unknown, the Unseen, and the Unrecognized

1 The Hadith Compilations Attributed to al-Barqi and al-?affar al-Qummi

2 The Exegetical Corpus: The tafasir of al-?Askari, al-Sayyari, al-Furat, al-Qummi, and al-?Ayyashi

3 The Hadith Compilation of al-Kulayni

4 The Hidden Imam: Unseen and Unrecognized

5 The Hidden Imam: Seen but Not Recognized

2 Hidden from All, yet Seen by Some? The Special Case of Three Hadiths

1 Hadith 1 (and Variants): “the 30 are never lonely”

2 Hadith 2: “[and] no one will know his location except the elite of his mawali”

3 Hadith 3: “except the mawla who is in charge of his affairs”

4 The mawla/mawali

3 “A Lying Impostor”

1 Ibn Abi Zaynab al-Nu?mani

2 Al-Shaykh al-?aduq

3 The Final Missive of the Hidden Imam

4 “A Lying Impostor”

5 Al-Shaykh al-Mufid

6 Al-Sharif al-Murta?a and His Students

4 From the Youth and the Stone to the Proliferation of Accounts

1 The Earliest Accounts of Encounters with the Imam in a Wakeful State

2 The “Invention” of a Tradition

3 The Proliferation of Accounts and the Consolidation of a Tradition

5 Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

Index of Quran Citations

Index of Quoted Hadiths

Index of People and Places

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Omid Ghaemmmaghami is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Near Eastern Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton.