Shi'ism: Doctrines, Thoughts, and Spirituality

Shi'ism: Doctrines, Thoughts, and Spirituality

Albany : State University of New York Press

1988

Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr

Introduction / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Shiʻi view of religion in general and Shiʻism in particular / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi -- The roots of Shiʻism in early Islamic history / Mahmud Shahabi -- The Shiʻi interpretation of the Qurʼan / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Murtada Mutahhari -- The Shiʻi interpretation of Hadith literature / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & S.M. Waris Hasan -- The Nahj al-Balaghah and the teachings of the Imams / Syed Hussein M. Jafri & Imam ʻAli -- Doctrinal divisions within Shiʻism / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi -- Shiʻism and Sunnism / Hamid Enayat -- Shiʻism, Ismaʻilism, and Shaykhism / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, Muhammad Ibn ʻAbd al-Karim al-Shahrastani, Marshall Hodgson, & Mangol Bayat -- Shiʻism and Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The Shiʻi view of God / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & William Chittick -- The Shiʻi view of revelation and prophecy / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & ʻAllamah al-Hilli -- The Imams and the Imamate / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Henry Corbin -- Shiʻi hermeneutics / Henry Corbin -- Taqiyyah / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Hamid Enayat -- Mutʻah or temporary marriage / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi & Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Eschatology / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi -- Ijtihad and marjaʻiyyat / Mahmud Ramyar & Leonard Binder -- Prayers of Shiʻi imam & duʻa-i kumayl, religious rites, prayers, and supplications / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Diverse religious practices / Ayatollah Abuʼl-Qasim Khuʼi Mahmud Ayoub, E.G. Browne, Peter Chelkowski, Dwight Donaldson -- Jihad / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Shiʻi education / Roy Mottahedeh -- Shiʻi theology / W. Montgomery Watt, ʻAllamah al-Hilli, & Khwajah Nasir al-Din Tusi -- Intellectual sciences and philosophy / ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, ʻAbd al-Razzaq Lahiji, & Muhsin Fayd Kashani -- Shiʻi literature / Mahmud Ayoub, E.G. Browne, Peter Chelkowski, & Shaykh al-Mufid -- Shiʻism and art / Nader Ardalan & Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Shiʻism and the natural sciences and mathematics / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Continuity and change in the intellectual heritage / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ʻAllamah Tabatabaʼi, Sayyid Abuʼl-Hasan Qazwini, Murtada Mutahhari, & Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr.

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