This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the third of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian D尨irat al-Ma尪rif-i Buzurg-i Islm蘋, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shi尪i Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shi尪i Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
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Adab
尪插餃硃鳥
Adam in Islam
Adhn and iqma
餃堯硃娶莉櫻聆轍櫻紳
尪Ad蘋 b. 廎勾tim
Al-Ad蘋b al-Na廜苔nz蘋
Ad蘋b 廜〢bir Tirmidh蘋
插梭-尪廎i餃
尪餃勳梭-釦堯櫻堯蘋莽
Af廎al al-D蘋n al-Kh贖naj蘋
Af廎al al-D蘋n Kirmn蘋
Al-Af廎al b. Badr al-Jaml蘋
Af廎al 廎工sayn蘋
Al-Af廎al Kutayft
Afghan
Afghanistan
插款梭櫻域蘋
插款娶櫻莽勳聆櫻莉
插款娶櫻莽勳聆櫻莉 (family)
插款莽堯櫻娶
插款莽堯櫻娶ids
插款莽堯蘋紳
Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. (q Khn)
gh Mu廎仟mmad Khn Qjr
ghj Ar蘋
Al-Aghn蘋, Kitb
AghlabidsMuslim dynasty that ruled in North Africa (800909), succeeded by the Fatimids.
插廎卡櫻喧堯
Ahl al-Kitb
Ahl-i 廎兀qq
插廎叮硃餃
插廎叮硃餃 al-尪Alaw蘋
插廎叮硃餃 al-Badaw蘋
插廎叮硃餃 al-N廜ξr
插廎叮硃餃 al-Rif尪蘋
插廎叮硃餃 al-Suhraward蘋
插廎叮硃餃 b. 尪Abd 插梭梭櫻堯 al-Mast贖r
插廎叮硃餃 b. Ab蘋 Du尨d al-Ibd蘋
插廎叮硃餃 b. al-廜柑yyib al-Sarakhs蘋
插廎叮硃餃 b. Ayy贖b
插廎叮硃餃 b. 廎兀nbal
插廎叮硃餃 b. 尪蘆s
插廎叮硃餃 b. 尪蘆s b. Zayd
插廎叮硃餃 b. Khi廎rawayh (Khi廎r贖ya) al-Balkh蘋
插廎叮硃餃 b. Mu廎仟mmad b. 尪蘆s
插廎叮硃餃 b. M贖s b. Ja尪far
插廎叮硃餃 Jm
插廎叮硃餃 Ksn蘋
插廎叮硃餃 Ktib
插廎叮硃餃 Mashhad蘋
插廎叮硃餃 Mujtahid
插廎叮硃餃 M贖s
插廎叮硃餃 Nayr蘋z蘋
插廎叮硃餃 Rasm蘋
插廎叮硃餃 Shh Durrn蘋
插廎叮硃餃 Shh Qjr
插廎叮硃餃 Shml贖
插廎叮硃餃 Sirhind蘋
插廎叮硃餃 Yasaw蘋
Al-A廎叩af b. Qays
A廎叵r, Khwjah N廜ξr al-D蘋n 尪Ubayd 插梭梭櫻堯
插梭-插廎叫櫻尨蘋
插廎叱櫻梭
Al-Ahwz蘋, Ab贖 al-廎兀san
尪尨勳莽堯硃
Akbar
插域莉硃娶-紳櫻鳥硃堯
Akhbr al-Dawla al-尪Abbsiyya
Al-Akhbr蘋, M蘋rz Mu廎仟mmad
插域堯莉櫻娶勳聆聆硃
al-Akhfash
插域堯蘋
插域堯蘋 Awrn
l A尪yan
尪Al尨 al-Dawla Simnn蘋
尪Al尨 al-D蘋n 尪A廜凍僮r Bukhr蘋
尪Al尨 al-D蘋n Mu廎仟mmad
插梭硃鳥贖喧
插梭款櫻廕
尪Al蘋 b. 尪Abd 插梭梭櫻堯 b. al-尪Abbs
尪Al蘋 b. Ab蘋 廎兀mza al-Ba廜俸尨in蘋
尪Al蘋 b. Ab蘋 廜珀libCousin of the Prophet Muhammad and his son-in-law by marriage to his daughter Fatima; the first Shii Imam and fourth caliph (d. 661).
尪Al蘋 b. al-廎工sayn, Ab贖 al-廎兀san
尪Al蘋 b. Ja尪far
尪Al蘋 b. Mahziyr
尪Al蘋 b. Maym贖n
尪Al蘋 Ri廎 尪Abbs蘋
尪l蘋-Qp贖 Palace
插梭梭櫻堯
插梭梭櫻堯wird蘋 Khn
插梭-梭贖莽蘋
插鳥櫻梭蘋
插梭-插尪鳥硃莽堯
插梭-鳥勳餃蘋
Al-Am蘋n, Mu廎叫in
mina bint Wahb
插鳥蘋紳轍蘋
插鳥蘋娶(pl. umar尨) Arabic lit. a prince, a commander, or a leader. In early Muslim history, the word am蘋r referred to an army commander. During the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, the… 硃梭-廎勾j轍
插鳥蘋娶 al-Mu尨min蘋n
Al-mir bi-A廎右m 插梭梭櫻堯
插鳥蘋娶 廎工sayn蘋
插鳥蘋娶 Kab蘋r
The 插鳥蘋娶 Kiy尨ids of G蘋ln
尪Amr b. al-尪廜
尪Amr b. al-Layth
尪Amr b. 廎兀miq al-Khuz尪蘋
al-Amr bi al-ma尪r贖f wa al-nahy 尪an al-munkar
Anas b. Mlik
插紳款櫻梭
插紳轍喝餃櫻紳
尪插紳紳櫻堝勳餃莽
插紳梁硃娶硃滄蘋
硃梭-插紳廜俸k蘋
插紳滄硃娶蘋
q Shams al-D蘋n
q Buzurg Tihrn蘋
尪Aq蘋l b. Ab蘋 廜珀lib
梁-梁贖聆贖紳梭贖
Arabic
插娶莉硃尪蘋紳
Ardistn, congregational mosque
Arg
Argh贖n Khn
Arg-i 尪Al蘋 Shh
尪rif Qazw蘋n蘋
Armenia
Asad蘋 廜玳哀蘋
廜ζf b. Barakhy
al-A廜ηagh b. Nubta
硃梭-插莽堯尪硃娶蘋
Ash尪ar蘋s of Qumm
Ash尪ar蘋s, the dissemination of Ash尪ar蘋 theology
al-Ash尪ath b. Qays al-Kind蘋
Ashraf Jahng蘋r
Ashraf-ughl蘋 (Erefolu)
尪莽堯贖娶櫻尨An event which is commemorated by many Shia Muslims as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Imam al-廎工sayn b. 尪Al蘋, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, which took…
插廜ρ
插廜ρ蘋 and Karam
Asm尨 bint 尪Umays
Al-Asm尨 wa al-a廎右m
硃梭-插廜σ硃尪蘋
Al-Asmar
Assassins
尪A廜俸尨 al-Khursn蘋
尪A廜凍僮r N蘋sb贖r蘋
Awliy Chalab蘋
插滄喧櫻餃
插梭-插滄堝櫻尪蘋
yt al-a廎右m
yat 插梭梭櫻堯
尪Ayn al-Qu廎t Hamadn蘋
插梭-尪插聆聆櫻莽堯蘋
插聆聆贖莉勳餃莽
Al-Azhar
A廕har Tabr蘋z蘋
A廕har, Immzdah
硃梭-插堝堯硃娶蘋
Al-尪Az蘋z billh
B 尪Alaw蘋
詁櫻莉
al-詁櫻莉 al-廎勾d蘋尪ashar
Clearly the editors of ISLA have selected articles they consider will augment the existing reference sources and they have completed this selection task with acumen and skill. The work as a whole remains, however, a specialist encyclopaedia […] – or perhaps more accurately, it is an encyclopaedia for specialists […]. In that sense, it is a valuable addition […] to the reference work available at present. Perhaps its greatest merit is that it brings to an international audience a key example of and an excellent advertisement for high-quality Iranian scholarship which has hitherto been available but known only to a few.
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[T]he publication of Encyclopaedia Islamica is a notable step forward in including the Shia viewpoint in scholarship on Islam.
Mousa al-Reza Wahdati, Journal of Shia Islamic Studies
Printed on coated paper, the five volumes so far published are an impressive achievement both in production as well as in scholarship related to Persian themes.
Yashab Tur, Islamic Sciences
Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies, consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver 釦堯勳i莽鳥See Shia., Zaydism and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with The Institute of Ismaili Studies.