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Title Shiism [electronic resource] : doctrines, thought, and spirituality / edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr.
Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988.

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Description xviii, 401 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Shii view of religion in general and Shiism in particular / Allamah Tabataba±i -- The roots of Shiism in early Islamic history / Mahmud Shahabi -- The Shii interpretation of the Qur±an / Allamah Tabataba±i & Murtada Mutahhari -- The Shii interpretation of Hadith literature / Allamah Tabataba±i & S.M. Waris Hasan -- The Nahj al-Balaghah and the teachings of the Imams / Syed Hussein M. Jafri & Imam Ali -- Doctrinal divisions within Shiism / Allamah Tabataba±i -- Shiism and Sunnism / Hamid Enayat -- Shiism, Ismailism, and Shaykhism / Allamah Tabataba±i, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani, Marshall Hodgson, & Mangol Bayat -- Shiism and Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The Shii view of God / Allamah Tabataba±i & William Chittick -- The Shii view of revelation and prophecy / Allamah Tabataba±i & Allamah al-Hilli -- The Imams and the Imamate / Allamah Tabataba±i & Henry Corbin -- Shii hermeneutics / Henry Corbin -- Taqiyyah / Allamah Tabataba±i & Hamid Enayat -- Mutah or temporary marriage / Allamah Tabataba±i & Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Eschatology / Allamah Tabataba±i -- Ijtihad and marjaiyyat / Mahmud Ramyar & Leonard Binder -- Prayers of Shii imam & dua-i kumayl, religious rites, prayers, and supplications / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Diverse religious practices / Ayatollah Abu±l-Qasim Khu±i Mahmud Ayoub, E.G. Browne, Peter Chelkowski, Dwight Donaldson -- Jihad / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Shii education / Roy Mottahedeh -- Shii theology / W. Montgomery Watt, Allamah al-Hilli, & Khwajah Nasir al-Din Tusi -- Intellectual sciences and philosophy / Allamah Tabataba±i, Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji, & Muhsin Fayd Kashani -- Shii literature / Mahmud Ayoub, E.G. Browne, Peter Chelkowski, & Shaykh al-Mufid -- Shiism and art / Nader Ardalan & Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Shiism and the natural sciences and mathematics / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Continuity and change in the intellectual heritage / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Allamah Tabataba±i, Sayyid Abu±l-Hasan Qazwini, Murtada Mutahhari, & Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Sadr.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 1999. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
Subject Shīʻah.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-
Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza, 1960-
NetLibrary, Inc.
Related To Original 0887066895 (DLC) 87010258 (OCoLC)16130856
ISBN 0585088608 (electronic bk.)
OCLC # 42856281
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