The Study of Shi'i Islam History, Theology and Law

The Institute of Ismaili Studies -- Shi'i Heritage Series -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Abbreviations -- Part 1. History and Historiography -- Introduction / Wilferd Madelung -- Chapter 1. Reflections on the Expression dīn 'Alī: The Origins of the Shi'i Faith / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Chapter 2. The Study of the Ismailis: Phases and Issues / Farhad Daftary -- Chapter 3. Al-Maqrīzī's Connection to the Fatimids / Nasser Rabbat -- Part 2. THE QURʼAN AND ITS SHI'I INTERPRETATIONS -- Introduction / Meir M Bar-Asher -- Chapter 4. What Defines a (Pre-modern) Shi'i Tafsīr? Notes towards the History of the Genre of Tafsīr in Islam, in the Light of the Study of the Shi'i Contribution / Andrew Rippin -- Chapter 5. The Tafsīr of al-Ḥibarī (d. 286/899): Qurʼanic Exegesis and Early Shi'i Esotericism -- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi / -- Chapter 6. The Empire Writes Back: Fatimid Ismaili Taʼwīl (Allegoresis) and the Mysteries of the Ancient Greeks / David Hollenberg -- Chapter 7. The Authority to Interpret the Qurʼan / Meir M. Bar-Asher -- Part 3. SHI'I ḤADĪTH -- Introduction / Etan Kohlberg -- Chapter 8. Writing and Resistance: The Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Early Shi'ism / Maria Massi Dakake -- Chapter 9. Pre-Būyid Ḥadīth Literature: The Case of al-Barqī from Qumm (d. 274/888 or 280/894) in Twelve Sections / Roy Vilozny -- Chapter 10. The Story of 'Pen and Paper' and its Interpretation in Muslim Literary and Historical Tradition / Gurdofarid Miskinzoda -- Part 4. SHI'I LAW -- Introduction -- Chapter 11. Renunciation (Zuhd) in the Early Shi'i Tradition / Christopher Melchert -- Chapter 12. The Evolution of al-Qāḍī al-Nu'mān's Theory of Ismaili Jurisprudence as Reflected in the Chronology of his Works on Jurisprudence / Ismail K Poonawala -- Chapter 13. The Theory of Māl among the Zaydīs / Sayyid Zayd al-Wazir -- Part 5. Authority -- Introduction / Andrew J Newman -- Chapter 14. 'Seeking the Face of God': The Safawid Ḥikmat Tradition's Conceptualisation of Walāya Takwīniyya / Sajjad Rizvi -- Chapter 15. The Role of the Imam-caliph as Depicted in Official Treatises and Documents Issued by the Fatimids / Paul E. Walker -- Chapter 16. 'Minority Reports': Twelver Shi'i Disputations and Authority in the Būyid Period / Andrew J Newman -- Part 6. Theology -- Introduction / Wilferd Madelung -- Chapter 17. Early Imāmī Theology as Reflected in the Kitāb al-kāfī of al-Kulaynī / Wilferd Madelung -- Chapter 18. Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and their Reception / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- Part 7. Rites and Rituals -- Introduction / Gerald R Hawting -- Chapter 19. 'Āshūrāʼ Rituals, Identity and Politics: A Comparative Approach (Lebanon and India) / Sabrina Mervin -- Chapter 20. The Luminous Lamp: The Practice of Chirāgh-i rawshan among the Ismailis of Central Asia / Hakim Elnazarov -- Part 8. Philosophy and Intellectual Traditions -- Introduction / Daniel De Smet -- Chapter 21. Shahrastānī's Ḥanīf Revelation: A Shi'i Philosophico-Hermeneutical System / Toby Mayer -- Chapter 22. Philosophising at the Margins of 'Shi'i Studies': Reflections on Ibn Sīnā's Ontology / Nader El-Bizri -- Epilogue / Azim Nanji -- Index.