{"title":"Rudolf Strothmann (1877-1960): Publications—Addenda","authors":"S. Schmidtke","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340071","url":null,"abstract":"1925 [Review] “Murgotten, F. C., The Origins of the Islamic State, Being a Translation from the Arabic ... of the Kitâb futûḥ al buldân of al-Imâm abu-lʿAbbas Aḥmed ibn-Jâbir al-Baladhuri, Part II, New York 1924 = Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, ed. by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, Vol. LXVIII, Part II, Nr. 163 A. XII u. 197 S. 80,” Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft 79 (1925), pp. 359-363.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125999120","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":"Asās al-maqālāt fī qamʿ al-jahālāt: A Hitherto Unknown Zaydī Heresiography from Northern Iran","authors":"H. Ansari, Rouhallah Foroughi, S. Schmidtke","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340065","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper revolves around a hitherto unknown heresiography from northern Iran, Asās al-maqālāt fī qamʿ al-jahālāt, which is preserved in a unique manuscript contained in a majmūʿa (Ms. Tehran, Majlis 10727). In the introduction, we describe the multitext codex, one of the few extant codices testifying to the continuous presence of Zaydism in northern Iran beyond the sixth/twelfth century. Additionally, we discuss two alternative tentative identifications of the author of Asās al-maqālāt, Abū Muḍar Shurayḥ b. al-Muʾayyad al-Muʾayyadī al-Shurayḥī and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shurayḥī al-Muʾayyadī. While the latter is entirely unknown, Abū Muḍar is renowned for his Asrār al-Ziyādāt, and we attempt to situate him more precisely in the chronology of Zaydī scholarship. Finally, we provide an editio princeps of Asās al-maqālāt fī qamʿ al-jahālāt.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117299716","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":"Do Accidents Need a Substrate? Critical Edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s Masʾala fī kayfiyyat wujūd al-aʿrāḍ","authors":"M. Ahmadi, H. Ansari, J. Thiele","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340067","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article offers an editio princeps of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s Masʾala fī kayfiyyat wujūd al-aʿrāḍ. In this text, al-Raṣṣāṣ argues in accordance with the Bahshamī theory that not all accidents need a substrate (maḥall). Although most accidents depend on atoms as their locus of inherence, there are three exceptions: the accident of “annihilation” (fanāʾ), whose existence in a substrate is inconceivable, and “will” (irāda) and “aversion” (karāha), which either subsist in a human body or exist without a substrate in the case of God.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121057858","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":"Karbala Mourning among the Fāṭimid-Ṭayyibī Shīʿa of India: Doctrinal and Performative Aspects of Sayyidnā Ṭāhir Sayf al-Dīn’s Arabic Marthiya, “O King of Martyrs” (Yā Sayyida l-Shuhadāʾī)","authors":"Tahera Qutbuddin","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340064","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Sayyid al-Shuhadāʾ lament—a poignant fifty-one-stanza Arabic marthiya composed by the Ṭayyibī Dāʿī l-Muṭlaq Sayyidnā Ṭāhir Sayf al-Dīn (d. 1385/1965)—holds an iconic status in the Karbala tradition of the Fāṭimid-Ṭayyibī Shīʿa of India. This article transcribes, translates, and analyses the lament to showcase a distinct religious tradition within a hybrid cultural milieu. The lament’s forms intersect with Arabic poetic conventions set in pre-Islamic times; its themes overlap with Twelver-Shīʿī Karbala laments in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu from the Middle East and South Asia; and its performance stems from melodic Persianate-Urdu recital. Simultaneously, it reflects the Fāṭimid-Ṭayyibī heritage, particularly the teachings of al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī (d. 470/1078), including the fundamentals of their Imāmate doctrine and the salvific importance of weeping for Ḥusayn.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"47 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121198687","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":"Islamic Theology in Thirty Topics: a Yemeni Zaydī Tradition Preserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana","authors":"Scott C. Lucas","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340060","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000For five centuries, Yemeni Zaydī scholars composed theological works that adhered to a thirty-topic framework. This article identifies the origins of this framework in a treatise by Qāḍī Jaʿfar al-Buhlūlī (d. 573/1177-1178) and shows that four Zaydī scholars who lived in the decades following him adopted it in at least some of their writings. I then trace the development of commentaries and versifications on the two core texts of the thirty topics tradition, Aḥmad al-Raṣṣāṣ’s (d. 621/1224) Miṣbāḥ al-ʿulūm and his al-Khulāṣa al-nāfiʿa. Altogether, I identify eighteen Zaydī writings that follow the thirty-topic framework, seventeen of which are held in manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The article concludes with critical editions of excerpts from three commentaries on Miṣbāḥ al-ʿulūm on the topic of the Prophet Muḥammad’s intercession on Judgement Day.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116065187","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":"Conference report, “Approaching Shiʿi Islam in the Academy”, Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS), Wednesday 14 November 2018-Thursday 15 November 2018","authors":"Edmund Hayes","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340057","url":null,"abstract":"The 2018 annual conference of the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) was held under the theme “Approaching Shiʿi Islam in the Academy”. This was perhaps the first conference of its kind in the Netherlands, whose universities, though possessing a strong tradition in Islamic studies and Persian studies, have not hitherto provided strong institutional support for Shii studies. The conference was attended and well received. presenting original research, contributors provided reflections on the state of their sub-fields and showed how examples derived from the study of can com-plicate and enrich debates in broader an Twelver) of periodiza-tion of ethnographies the state of the of cor-pora. analysis bird’s studies","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"823 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133250951","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":"Wa-lam yakun bi-dhāka: A Response to Wilferd Madelung’s Review of L’imamat et l’occultation selon l’imamisme","authors":"H. Ansari","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340051","url":null,"abstract":"In the opening sentence of his review of my monograph L’imamat et l’occultation selon l’imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes (Leiden/ Boston: Brill 2017) Professor Madelung writes, “The present book offers a substantial contribution to the study of the literary tradition asserting the Twelver Shiʿi doctrine of the legitimacy of twelve Imams and the minor and major occultation of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdī and eschatological Qāʾim of the Prophet Muḥammad’s Family.”1 Whether or not this is a correct assessment is a different matter; but nowhere in the review does he allude to what substantial contribution the book would offer to its potential readers. Indeed, reading the review provides more information about Madelung’s own views than about anything that has been mentioned in the book. For instance, Madelung begins his review by enunciating his own hypothesis concerning the legitimate succession to the Prophet and how his daughter Fāṭima rather than ʿAli ̄ibn Abi ̄Ṭālib should have been designated his successor. This is because in his view, “succession meant inheritance” (p. 377) and “[t]he heir and successor of Muḥammad was his only surviving daughter Fāṭima, who under the Qurʾanic law of succession was entitled to seven eighth [sic!, H.A.] of Muḥammad’s property rights and debts” (p. 377). He also claims that “Fāṭima should have been recognised as a queen” (p. 377). He does not deem it necessary to provide any supporting evidence for his claim. I do not agree with this thesis concerning Fāṭima as the successor to the Prophet and have provided my arguments elsewhere.2","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126595736","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":"Directions in Jewish-Shīʿī Studies","authors":"Ehud Krinis","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000So far Jewish-Shīʿī Studies have failed to receive clear and wide recognition from the community of scholars of both Jewish and Shīʿī Studies. In an effort to substantiate the case for clearer and wider scholarly recognition of Jewish-Shīʿī Studies, the present article provides a survey of the state of art of these studies, especially regarding the period of the 1st /7th-7th/13th centuries. While the survey testifies to the diversity and the manifold directions included in this field of studies, the article also addresses the question of what can be considered the unique features in Jewish-Shīʿī affinities.","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115803881","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":"Imāmī Records of Divine Sayings: Some Thoughts on al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī’s al-Jawāhir al-saniyya fī-l-aḥādīth al-qudsiyya","authors":"Roy Vilozny","doi":"10.1163/24682470-12340040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24682470-12340040","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper addresses the question of ḥadīth qudsī as an independent sub-category of ḥadīth within the Imāmī literary corpus. It focuses on al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī’s (d. 1104/1693) al-Jawāhir al-saniyya fī-l-aḥādīth al-qudsiyya which appears to be the earliest extant Shīʿī compilation entirely devoted to this sort of material. Of the various forms of ḥadīth qudsī in al-ʿĀmilī’s work special attention is paid to traditions in which an Imam cites God directly, without an intermediary in the form of a prophet or an angel. I argue that such traditions represent a more flexible perception of the Imam-Divine relationship than the one familiar to us from theological treatises starting from the Buwayhid period (334/945-447/1055).","PeriodicalId":107625,"journal":{"name":"Shii Studies Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123532871","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}