This is a Russian translation of Farhad Daftary, A History of Shi士i Islam.
Description from A History of Shi士i Islam
Shi士i Muslims have played a crucial role, proportionally greater than their relative size, in furthering the civilizational achievements of Islam. Indeed, the Shi士i scholars and literati of various branches and regions, including scientists, philosophers, theologians, jurists and poets, have made seminal contributions to Islamic thought and culture. There have also been numerous Shi士i dynasties, families or individual rulers who patronized scholars, poets and artists as well as various institutions of learning in Islam. In spite of its significance, however, Shi士i Islam has received little scholarly attention in the West, and when it has been discussed, whether in general or in terms of some of its subdivisions, it has normally been treated marginally as a 鈥榮ect鈥 or a 鈥榟eterodoxy鈥. The present book draws on the scattered findings of modern scholarship in the field, attempting to explain the formative era of Shi士i Islam, when a multitude of Muslim groups and schools of thought were elaborating their doctrinal positions. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the history of the Ithna士asharis, or TwelversSee Ithna’asharis., the IsmailisAdherents of a branch of Shi’i Islam that considers Ismail, the eldest son of the Shi’i Imam Ja士far al-峁⒛乨iq (d. 765), as his successor., the Zaydis and the Nusayris (now more commonly known in Syria as the Alawis), the four communities that account for almost the entirety of the Shi士i Muslim population of the world. The result is a comprehensive survey of Shi士i Islam that will serve as an accessible work of reference for academics in both Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, as well as the broader field of the History of Religions, and also more general, non-specialist readers.
Contents from A History of Shi士i Islam
Genealogical Tables and Lists
Preface
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Progress in the Study of Shi士i Islam
Diversity in Early Islam
Medieval Sunni Perceptions
Medieval European Perceptions
Orientalist Perspectives
Modern Scholarship on Shi士i Islam
2. The Origins and Early History of Shi士i Islam
Origins of Shi士ism
The Early Shi士a
The Kaysaniyya
The ghulat
The Early Imamiyya
The Imami Shi士i Doctrine of the Imamate
3. The Ithna士asharis or Twelvers
The Later Twelver Imams and the Hidden Mahdi
From the Occultation of the Twelfth Imam to the Mongol Invasions
From Nasir al-Din al-Tusi to the Advent of the Safawids
From the Safawids to Early Modern Times
From Around 1215/1800 to the Present
4. The Ismailis
The Early Ismailis
The Fatimid Phase in Ismaili History
The Tayyibi Ismailis: The Yamani and Indian Phases
The Nizari Ismailis: The AlamutFortress of the Nizari Ismailis in northern Iran, which fell to the Mongols in 654 AH/1256 CE. Phase
Later developments in Nizari Ismaili History
5. The Zaydis
The Early Zaydis
The Zaydis of the Caspian Region in Persia
The Zaydis of Yaman
6. The Nusayris or 士Alawis
Nusayri Studies
History of the Nusayris
The Nusayri-士Alawi Doctrines
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Farhad Daftary is the Co-Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and Head of the Institute鈥檚 Department of Academic Research and Publications. Since the mid-1960s, when he was completing his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, he has cultivated his interest in Shi士i studies, with special reference to its Ismaili tradition, on which he is an authority. As well as serving on various editorial boards, Dr Daftary is a consulting editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, co-editor (with W. Madelung) of Encyclopaedia Islamica, and the general editor of the 鈥業smaili Heritage Series鈥 and the 鈥業smaili Texts and Translations Series鈥. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including The Ism膩士墨l墨s (1990; 2nd ed., 2007), The Assassin Legends (1994), A Short History of the Ism膩士墨l墨s (1998), Intellectual Traditions in Islam (2000), Ismaili Literature (2004), A Modern History of the Ismailis (2011), as well as many articles and encyclopaedia entries. Dr Daftary鈥檚 books have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Gujarati and various European languages.