This is a Russian translation of Farhad Daftary, Amyn B. Sajoo and Shainool Jiwa, eds, The Shi尪i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity.
Description from The Shi尪i World
The world’s 200 million Shi尪i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways, united by reverence for the ahl al-baytLit. the people of the house, meaning the Prophet Muhammad and members of his household including especially his cousin and soninlaw Ali b. Abi Talib, his daughter Fatima and his…, the family of the Prophet. In embracing a pluralistic ethic, fourteen centuries of Shi尪i Islam have given rise to diverse traditions and practices across varied geographic and cultural landscapes. The Shi尪i World is a comprehensive work authored by leading scholars from assorted disciplines, to provide a better understanding of how Shi尪i communities view themselves and articulate their teachings. The topics range from Shi尪i Islams historical and conceptual foundations, formative figures and intellectual, legal and moral traditions, to its devotional practices, art and architecture, literature, music and cinema, as well as expressions and experiences of modernity. The book thus provides a panoramic perspective of the richly textured narratives that have shaped the social and moral universe of Shi尪i Muslims around the globe. This fourth volume in the Muslim Heritage Series will appeal to specialists and general readers alike, as a timely resource on the prevailing complexities not only of the Muslim world, but also of the dynamic Shi尪i diasporas of Europe and North America.
Contents from The Shi尪i World
List of Illustrations
About the Contributors
Introduction
Farhad Daftary, Amyn B. Sajoo, Shainool Jiwa
1. Remembering Muhammad
Omid Safi
2. Imam Ali
Reza Shah-Kazemi
3. Imam Ja尪far al-Sadiq and the Elaboration of Shi尪ism
Karim Douglas Crow
4. Legal Traditions
Andrew J. Newman
5. Intellectual Traditions
Paul E. Walker
6. Governance and Pluralism under the FatimidsMajor Muslim dynasty of Ismaili caliphs in North Africa (from 909) and later in Egypt (9731171) More (909996 CE)
Shainool Jiwa
7. Moral Authority in the Safawid State
Rula J. Abisaab
8. Devotional Practices
Ali S. Asani
9. Shi尪i Communities in History
Farhad Daftary
10. Remembering FatimaDaughter of the Prophet Muhammad and his first wife, Khad蘋ja bint Khuwaylid. Also wife of 尪Al蘋 b. Ab蘋 廜珀lib and mother of al-廎兀san and al-廎工sayn. and Zaynab: Gender in Perspective
Zayn Kassam and Bridget Blomfield
11. Art and Architecture
Jonathan Bloom
12. Literature
Eric Ormsby
13. Music
William Sumits
14. Shi尪ism in Iranian Cinema
Nacim Pak-Shiraz
15. Diasporas
Zulfikar Hirji and Karen Ruffle
16. Modernity: The Ethics of Identity
Amyn B. Sajoo
Glossary
Index
Farhad Daftary is Co-Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He is the author of numerous texts and co-editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica as well as the general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series and the Shii Heritage Series.
Amyn B. Sajoo is Scholar-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures (Vancouver). He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge and McGill Universities, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London.
Shainool Jiwa is head of the Constituency Studies Unit at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, where she is a specialist in Fatimid history. Dr Jiwa is on the Board of Governors of Edinburgh Napier University, and serves as a chief examiner in Islamic history for the International Baccalaureate Organization.