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Islam Without Allah?: The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran [Paperback / softback]

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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, height x width: 235x159 mm, weight: 408 g
  • Pub. Date: 17-Jul-2014
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138010677
  • ISBN-13: 9781138010673
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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138010677
  • ISBN-13: 9781138010673
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This ground-breaking and controversial work locates the antecedents of today's Islamic 'fundamentalism' in 16th and 17th century Iran and the forced conversion of the Sunnite population of Iran to the largely alien doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism; the concomitant extirpation of Sufism and philosophy; and the gradual rise of the 'faqih' or jurist.

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'A fascinating account...immensely absorbing and instructive. ... An in-depth account of how competing understandings of Islam from the early sixteenth century onwards gradually led to the establishment of Twelver Shi'ism as the official religion of the Iranian state. A masterpiece, which cannot be ignored by anyone interested in the history of the Twelvers and of Iran more generally.' - The Muslim World Book Review 'A masterpiece, which cannot be ignored by anyone interested in the history of the Twelvers and of Iran more generally.' - The Muslim World Book Review

Introduction vii
1 Belief and Submission Reconsidered
1(42)
Introduction
1(3)
The Koran on iman and islam
4(2)
The Koran and islam
6(2)
The difference between iman and islam: the Sunni view
8(1)
Koranic exegesis and islam
9(5)
The concepts of iman and islam in Twelver Shi'ite Traditions
14(2)
The concepts of iman and islam in Shi'ite exegesis
16(4)
Knowledge in islam: what is 'ilm and who are the 'ulama?
20(3)
Knowledge in the Traditions
23(2)
Evolution of the terms 'ilm and fiqh
25(5)
Popular perception of the terms 'Ilm and 'ulama
30(1)
Contemporary Muslim scholars and 'ilm
31(3)
The Koran on 'ilm and 'ulama
34(9)
2 Religion in medieval Iran and the rise of the Safavids
43(29)
Introduction: internalism and external ism defined
43(6)
Twelver Shi'ism in the pre-Safavid era
49(4)
Sufism and pro-Shi'ite extremism (ghuluww)
53(1)
Sufism
53(4)
Extremism or `ghuluww'
57(1)
The rise of the Safavids
58(14)
3 The consolidation of Safavid power and the rise of Twelver Shi'ite externalism
72(76)
Introduction
72(3)
The Twelver Shi'ite fuqaha: guardians of externalism
75(2)
The evolution of the role of the Twelver Shi'ite jurist
77(2)
Enter the externalists: from Jabal' Amil to Isfahan
79(3)
Of Shah and Shaykh: Isma'il and Karaki
82(5)
The reign of Shah Tahmasp: the fuqaha take root
87(3)
Indigenous opposition to Twelver Shi'ite Externalism: the Persian'aristocracy'
90(7)
Shah Isma'il II to Shah 'Abbas I
97(7)
The externalists: their milieu and teachings
104(12)
In search of Twelver Shi'ite internalism
116(9)
The non-externalists: their milieu and teachings
125(10)
The reigns of Shah Safi and Shah 'Abbas II
135(13)
4 `Allama Majlisi: externalist extraordinaire
148(39)
Introduction
148(3)
The Majlisi family
151(1)
The forefathers of Muhammad Baqir Majlisi
151(3)
Muhammad Baqir's formative years
154(8)
The public career of 'Allama Majlisi
162(3)
Majlisi and the post of mulla-bashi
165(1)
Majlisi's written works
166(4)
Oceans of light? Majlisi's Bihar al-anwar
170(2)
Majlisi vis-a-vis Sufism and other `innovations'
172(5)
Majlisi's interpretation of the terms 'ilm and 'ulama
177(2)
The descendants of 'Allama Majlisi
179(8)
5 Externalism in focus: the Twelver Shi'ite doctrines of intizar and raj'a
187(57)
Introduction
187(1)
Messianism in Islam
187(2)
The term al-mahdi and its early use
189(2)
The Mahdi in the Traditions
191(1)
Sunni Traditions on the Mahdi
192(1)
The Mahdi in Shi'ite Traditions: Volume XIII of Majlisi's Bihar
193(1)
The concept of intizar
194(1)
The occultation of the Imam: a test for the Twelver Shi'ites
195(3)
The Traditions on intizar
198(4)
The politico-religious implications of intizar
202(13)
The return of the Twelve Imams: the doctrine of raj'a
215(1)
The historical development of the doctrine of raj'a
216(2)
The doctrine of raj 'a in the Bihar al-anwar
218(1)
The general Traditions on raj'a
218(5)
The curious Tradition of Mufaddal b. Umar
223(7)
The raj 'a: a major factor in Twelver Shi'ite externalism
230(2)
Safavid Shi'ism and Alid Shi'ism: a contemporary critique
232(12)
6 Conclusions
244(9)
Select Bibliography 253(10)
Index 263
Colin Turner