{"product_id":"wal-257-yah-in-the-f-257-7789-imid-ism-257-703-299-l-299-tradition-9781438466262","title":"Wal\u0026#257;yah in the F\u0026#257;\u0026#7789;imid Ism\u0026#257;\u0026#703;\u0026#299;l\u0026#299; Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elizabeth R. Alexandrin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Islam - Shi'a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā'īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the \u003ci\u003eimām\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin's work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī chief missionary al-Mu'ayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1078 CE), the concept of \u003ci\u003ewalāyah\u003c\/i\u003e (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fāṭimid caliph-\u003ci\u003eimām\u003c\/i\u003es were the heirs of \u003ci\u003ewalāyah\u003c\/i\u003e and by proposing new definitions of the \"seal of God's friends\" (\u003ci\u003ekhātim al-awliyā' Allāh\u003c\/i\u003e), al- Mu'ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889664311447,"sku":"9781438466262","price":3740.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781438466262.webp?v=1781177269","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wal-257-yah-in-the-f-257-7789-imid-ism-257-703-299-l-299-tradition-9781438466262","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}