Wilferd Madelung
Articles by Wilferd Madelung
- COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY vi. In Ismaʿilism
COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY vi. In Ismaʿilism Ismaʿili cosmology evolved in four major stages. Stage 1. Pre-Fatimid doctrine, dating from the…
- EBN ṬĀWŪS, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L- FAŻĀʾEL AḤMAD
EBN ṬĀWŪS, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L- FAŻĀʾEL AḤMAD b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar b. Moḥammad Ḥasanī, Imami scholar. The Banū Ṭāwūs, named after…
- EBN ŠĀḎĀN
EBN ŠĀḎĀN, family name of two Imami traditionists. 1. Abu’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan (or Ḥosayn) Fāmī Qomī, Imami…
- EBN ŠĀHAWAYH
EBN ŠĀHAWAYH (Šāhūya), ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAlī, a leader and envoy of the Carmatians. In Šawwāl 366/May-June 977 he…
- EBN AL-JEʿĀBĪ, ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD
EBN AL-JEʿĀBĪ, ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD b. ʿOmar Tamīmī Ḥāfeẓ, traditionist with Shiʿite leanings (b. Baghdad 23 or 24 Ṣafar 284/1…
- EBN AL-JONAYD, ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD
EBN AL-JONAYD (or al-Jonaydī), ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD b. Aḥmad Kāteb Eskāfī, Imami jurist. His nesba indicates that he came from…
- DEYLAMITES
DEYLAMITES, people inhabiting a shifting region in northern Persia and adjacent territories, including the Deylamān uplands. i. In the Pre-Islamic…
- DEYLAMĪ, ABU’L-FATḤ NĀṢER
DEYLAMĪ,ABU’L-FATḤ NĀṢER b. Ḥosayn b. Moḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Moḥammad b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan…
- BOZORG-OMĪD, KĪĀ
BOZORG-OMĪD, KĪĀ, the second Ismaʿili ruler of Alamūt (518-32/1124-38). He was of Deylami origin from the region of Rūdbār. The…
- BOSTĪ, ABU’L-QĀSEM
BOSTĪ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ESMĀʿĪL b. Aḥmad JĪLĪ, Muʿtazilite and Zaydī author of the late 4th/10th and early 5th/11th century. Little is…
- BORHĀN-AL-DĪN NASAFĪ
BORHĀN-AL-DĪN NASAFĪ, ABU’L-FAŻĀʾEL MOḤAMMAD b. Moḥammad b. Moḥammad b. ʿAbd-Allāh (d. 687/1288), Hanafite theologian, logician, and expert on legal points…
- BOḴĀRĪ, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN
BOḴĀRĪ, ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad, called al-Zāhed al-ʿAlāʾ, Hanafite scholar of feqh, legal methodology, kalām theology,…
- ABŪ MOSLEM EṢFAHĀNĪ
ABŪ MOSLEM MOḤAMMAD B. BAḤR AL-EṢFAHĀNĪ AL-KĀTEB, secretary, official, man of letters, and Muʿtazilite Koran commentator, b. 254/868, probably in…
- ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI i. LIFE AND SIGNIFICANCE IN SHIʿISM
ḤOSAYN B. ʿALI i. LIFE AND SIGNIFICANCE IN SHIʿISM According to most reports, Ḥosayn b. ʿAli was born on 5…
- ḤOQAYNI
ḤOQAYNI, the nesba of two Zaydi Imams referring to their ancestor Aḥmad Ḥoqaynab. ʿAli b. Ḥosayn b. ʿAli b. Abi…
- ḤASANI, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS AḤMAD B. EBRĀHIM
ḤASANI, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS AḤMAD B. EBRĀHIM, Zaydi scholar from Āmol in Ṭabarestān, who flourished in the first half of the 3rd/9th…
- ḤASAN B. ʿALI B. ABI ṬĀLEB
ḤASAN B. ʿALI B. ABI ṬĀLEB, eldest surviving grandson of the Prophet Moḥammad through his daughter Fāṭema, and second Imam…
- ḤAMDĀN QARMAṬ
ḤAMDĀN QARMAṬ b. al-Ašʿaṯ, Ismaʿili dāʿi and founder of the Ismaʿili movement in Iraq. He came from a village in…
- GĪLĀN iv. History in the Early Islamic Period
GĪLĀN iv. HISTORY IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD The Gelae (Gilites) seem to have entered the region south of the…
- ḠAZĀLĪ, ABŪ ḤĀMED MOḤAMMAD, vii, viii
ḠAZĀLĪ vii. Ḡazālī and the Bāṭenīs. viii. Impact on Islamic thought. See Supplement. vii. ḠAZĀLĪ AND THE BĀṬENĪS The…