{"title":"The David Thomas Gochenour Collection of Zaydi Yemeni Manuscripts","authors":"S. Schmidtke","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121589582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Responsum by the Fifth/Eleventh-Century Imāmī Theologian Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Ḥamza al-Jaʿfarī on the Number of the Imams","authors":"H. Ansari, Hamid Ataei Nazari, S. Schmidtke","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340083","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 MS Tehran, Dānishgāh-i Tihrān 5396, a multitext codex dating to the eleventh/seventeenth century, includes a tract entitled Risālat al-ḥujja fī l-imāma by the little-known fifth/eleventh-century Imāmī theologian Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Ḥamza al-Jaʿfarī. The text is transmitted in two additional witnesses, and in both it is attributed to al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044). The tract was recently published as a work by al-Murtaḍā on the basis of one of these witnesses, which was believed to be a unique copy. The present study discusses the scarce available data about Abū Yaʿlā al-Jaʿfarī and shows that he, rather than al-Murtaḍā, is the author of the tract, which circulated under titles such as Risālat al-ḥujja fī l-imāma and Masʾala fī bayān imāmat al-aʾimma al-ithnay ʿashar ʿalayhim ṣalawāt Allāh wa-l-malāʾika wa-l-bashar. Finally, we present a critical edition of the tract, one of the earliest extant Imāmī writings on the question of the number of the imams, on the basis of all three witnesses.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130908386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Sulaymān’s Miʿrāj al-salāma and Miṣbāḥ al-ʿirfān: Edition (with Introduction) of Two Early Witnesses to the Incorporation of Avicennian Metaphysics into Imāmī Shiite Kalām","authors":"H. Ansari, Robert Wisnovsky","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340087","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article provides an editio princeps of two short philosophical treatises, Miʿrāj al-salāma wa-minhāj al-karāma and Miṣbāḥ al-ʿirfān wa-miftāḥ al-bayān, by the Imāmī Shiite thinker Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Sulaymān al-Baḥrānī (d. ca. 670/1271). ʿAlī b. Sulaymān served to link Ibn Saʿāda and Ibn Maytham, who were fellow scholars from Bahrain and ʿAlī’s teacher and student, respectively. Like them, ʿAlī played an important role in introducing Avicenna’s philosophy to Imāmī Shiite theology.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125853684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing a Worldview: Al-Barqī’s Role in the Making of Early Shīʿī Faith, written by Roy Vilozny","authors":"Edmund Hayes","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129176859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behind Enemy Lines: An Account of a Secret Conversion to Shiism in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Aleppo","authors":"D. Stewart","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340079","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines a work by Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī (918–984/1512–1576) in which he provides the supposed transcript of a private debate he held with a Ḥanafī jurist in Aleppo in 951/1544–45. In it, Ḥusayn claims to have converted his Sunni acquaintance to Shiite Islam through skilled argument and adduction of proof. It is argued here that he modified what may originally have been a debate on the relative merits of the Shāfiʿī and Ḥanafī legal schools to focus on Sunni-Shiite polemics, including the relative merits of the Jaʿfarī legal school and the status of the Companions of the Prophet. He probably recorded the debate in 961–63/1554–56, shortly after his arrival in Safavid territory, in an attempt to curry favour with and attract the patronage of Shah Tahmasb or other Safavid officials.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121982718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, written by Alyssa Gabbay","authors":"Halla Attallah","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129343891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Humans Refrain from Lying: A Critical Edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid al-lāzima ʿan ṣīghat dalīl wāḥid","authors":"H. Ansari, Ehsan Mousavi Khalkhali, Jan Thiele","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340084","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article offers a critical edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid al-lāzima ʿan ṣīghat dalīl wāḥid. In this text, al-Raṣṣāṣ establishes ten premisses to prove that humans will always say the truth if lying yields no greater benefit for them. We suggest that al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid was written in reaction to a section of Mānkdīm Shashdīw’s Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa: Mānkdīm considers this proposition self-evident, whereas al-Raṣṣāṣ insists on the necessity of proving it rationally.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124143813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ismaili Taʾwīl of Religious Rites: Interpretation of Obligatory Prayer in Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman’s Riḍāʿ fī l-Bāṭin","authors":"Fârès Gillon","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340080","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In what was labelled “exaggerating” Shiʿism (ghuluww) by various Islamic orthodoxies (Twelver Shiʿism, Sunnism, and Fatimid Ismailism), it was commonly held that the Islamic prescriptions had to be interpreted as referring to specific persons (ashkhāṣ)—which sometimes led to antinomianism. Stemming from this tradition, Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman, a tenth-century Fatimid Ismaili author, proposes in his Riḍāʿ fī l-bāṭin an exegesis of the ritual ablutions and the five daily prayers that identifies them with specific individuals and sacred ranks of the daʿwa. This work illustrates how Ismailism developed its distinctiveness by reinterpreting and reshaping classical Shiʿi themes. Jaʿfar’s esoteric interpretation of prayer suggests that the core of early Ismaili doctrine resides in the acknowledgement of the esoteric hierarchy of the daʿwa, as well as in the expectation of the coming Mahdī, while insisting on the necessity of both the esoteric and exoteric aspects of religion.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127657049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opposing the Imām: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature, written by Nebil Husayn","authors":"Hadi Qazwini","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125917686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}