This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the fifth 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.
This volume contains articles on the great Iranian polymath, Ab贖 Ray廎汁n 硃梭-詁蘋娶贖紳蘋, Sayyid(pl. sda/asyd) Arabic term for lord or master. It is a pre-Islamic term and refers to a person who possesses dignity or enjoys an exalted position among his people. Amongst… 廎兀san 詁喝轍紳贖娶餃蘋, the prominent Shi尪i scholar of the Najaf seminary, the Khursn蘋 ascetic and Sufi Bishr al-廎勾f蘋, and the Mu尪tazil蘋 theologian Bishr b. al-Mu尪tamir. It also contains a host of other articles on topics as diverse as the history of cities of 詁喝域堯櫻娶櫻 and Cairo, the famous poem known as the Burda written in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the institution of the Caliphate, the life and work of the great 20th-century French Islamologist Henry Corbin.
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硃梭-詁蘋娶贖紳蘋
Bishr al-廎勾f蘋
Bishr al-Mar蘋s蘋
Bishr b. al-Mu尪tamir
Bishr b. al-Sar蘋
Bismil Sh蘋rz蘋
詁蘋莽喝喧贖紳
B蘋zhan wa Man蘋zhah
Blue Mosque of Tabr蘋z
BohraIndian community of Musta尪li Ismailis, now found primarily in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, Yemen, Egypt and other parts of the world.
Brotherhood
Budayl b. Warq尨
詁喝堯梭贖梭
詁喝轍紳贖娶餃蘋
詁喝域櫻尨
Bukayr b. Mhn
詁喝域堯櫻娶櫻
Bukhr蘋 Arfinj蘋
al-Bukhr蘋, Mu廎仟mmad
Bukhr蘋, Sayyid Jall al-D蘋n
Bulgha
詁喝梭贖域
Bunah
詁喝紳餃櫻娶
Bundar bd, Complex
詁喝紳餃櫻娶 b. al-廎工sayn Sh蘋rz蘋
al-詁喝紳餃櫻娶蘋
詁喝紳蘋釵堯硃堯
Burayda b. al-廎工廜ζyb
Burda
詁喝娶眶堯贖喧堯勳聆聆硃
詁喝娶堯櫻紳
詁喝娶堯櫻紳 al-D蘋n Ghar蘋b
詁喝娶堯櫻紳 al-D蘋n Jnam
詁喝娶堯櫻紳 al-D蘋n Mu廎仟qqiq Tirmidh蘋
詁喝娶堯櫻紳-i Q廜虹尪
詁喝娶堯櫻紳p贖r蘋
Burial
硃梭-詁喝娶莽蘋
詁喝娶贖轍勳娶餃
詁喝娶贖轍勳娶餃, Congregational Mosque
詁喝娶贖轍勳娶餃蘋
詁喝娶堝贖聆硃
硃梭-詁贖莽堯硃紳轍蘋
硃梭-詁贖廜蘋r蘋
插梭-詁贖莽紳硃滄蘋
詁喝廜ψ櫻 硃梭-釦堯櫻鳥The mediaeval region of Syria, today comprising Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.
詁贖莽喧櫻紳
Bust蘋, Ab贖 al-廎兀san
al-Bust蘋, Ab贖 al-Qsim
詁贖聆勳餃莽
B贖yir A廎叮ad
Buy贖tt-i Sal廜苔nat蘋
Buzghush Sh蘋rz蘋
al-B贖zjn蘋, Ab贖 al-Waf尨
B贖zjn蘋, Darw蘋sh 尪Al蘋
Buzurg b. Shahriyr
Buzurgmihr
詁喝堝喝娶眶-惚鳥蘋餃
Cairo
Calendar
Caliphate
Calligraphy
Carpets and Carpet-Making
Categories
Causality
唬堯硃眶堯櫻紳勳聆櫻紳
Chaghaty Khn
Chaghaty Khnate
Chaghatay, Language and Literature
硃梭-唬堯硃眶堯鳥蘋紳蘋
Chahr Ma廎汁l wa Bakhtiyr蘋
Chahr-bgh, Madrasa
唬堯硃梭硃莉蘋
Chldirn (ald覺ran)
唬堯硃娶域堯蘋
Cherkess (Circassian)
唬堯勳眶勳紳蘋
Chihil Sut贖n (I廜λahn)
Chihil Sut贖n (Qazw蘋n)
Chillah
Chirgh-i Dihl蘋
Chirgh-i Rawshan
Chishtiyya
唬堯贖眶櫻紳
Ch贖pn Oghullari
唬堯贖梯櫻紳勳餃莽
Circumcision
Clime
Clothing
Corbin, Henry
Cosmology and Cosmogony
Creation (in Islamic Philosophy)
Crown
The Crusades
Cyrus the Great
Dbbat al-Ar廎
Dd, Taq蘋 al-D蘋n Mu廎仟mmad
嗨硃廎召櫻紳
Dahr (in the Qur尨n)
Dahriyya
Da廎叱 al-Ar廎
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.
Robert Gleave, Journal of the American Oriental Society
[The] 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.