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ISLAM IN IRAN ix. THE DEPUTIES OF MAHDI
Verena Klemm
according to Twelver Shiʿite tradition, the four intermediaries between the Hidden Imam and the faithful during his “Minor Occultation,” 874-941 CE.
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ISLAM IN IRAN x. THE ROOTS OF POLITICAL SHIʿISMs
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
By “political Shiʿism” we mean here the politicization of theological and legal doctrines of Twelver Shiʿism among some thinkers, in order to make of these doctrines an ideology of legitimization of religious authority and power.
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ISLAM IN IRAN xi. JIHAD IN ISLAM
David Cook
The term jihad (Ar. jehād “struggle, striving”) occurs (either in its root or derivatives) about forty times in the Qurʾān with the secondary, but dominant, meaning of “regulated warfare with divine sanction.”
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ISLAM IN IRAN xii. MARTYRDOM IN ISLAM
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ISLAM IN IRAN xiii. ISLAMIC POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN 20TH CENTURY IRAN
Ahmad Ashraf
New Islamic political movements first emerged in the Near East, the Indian Subcontinent, and Indonesia in the middle of the 19th century.
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ISLAM IN IRAN xiv - xviii
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ISMAʿILISM
Multiple Authors
a major Shiʿite Muslim community. The Ismaʿilis have had a long and eventful history dating back to the middle of the 2nd/8th century when the Emāmi Shiʿis split into several groups.
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ISMAʿILISM i. ISMAʿILI STUDIES
Farhad Daftary
In its modern and scientific form, dating to the 1930s, Ismaʿili studies represents one of the newest fields of Islamic studies.
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ISMAʿILISM ii. ISMAʿILI HISTORIOGRAPHY
Farhad Daftary
The general lack of Ismaʿili interest in historiography is well attested by the fact that only a few works of historical nature have been found in the rich corpus of Ismaʿili literature.
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ISMAʿILISM iii. ISMAʿILI HISTORY
Farhad Daftary
On the death of Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq in 148/765 his followers from among the Imami Shiʿites split into six groups, of which two may be identified as proto-Ismaʿilis or earliest Ismaʿilis.