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The Chronology of al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Works ” Brill Online

A chronology of an author’s works is necessary for understanding his or her intellectual evolution. Al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān wrote numerous books on diverse disciplines, such as jurisprudence, history, traditions of the Messenger of God and the Ismāʿīlī imams, biographies of the Fāṭimid caliph-imams, refutations of the Sunnī schools of law, and allegorical interpretation of the Qurʾān and the šarīʿa.

زمینه‌های تبلیغاتی تأسیس دولت‌های سادات در شمال ایران در قرن نهم

پیدایش دولت‌های مرعشیان، آل‌کیا و آل‌عماد و بعد از آن تاسیس دولت صفوی که آن هم ادامه آنها و بر پایه نوعی انقلاب-سیادت بود، نیاز به زمینه‌های تبلیغاتی فراوانی در ایران مرکزی، شمال ایران و خراسان داشت. بخشی از این تبلیغات، در کتاب‌های انساب و عمدتاً بر محور بحرالانساب شکل گرفت.

Ismaili of Central Asia – Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History

The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili missionary movement spread into many areas of the Islamic world in the 10th century, under the leadership of the Ismaili Fatimids caliphs in Egypt.

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Liyakat Takim, “Shi‘ism in the American Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities” in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 38, no. 1, (2018): 73-86.

African American Twelver Shia Community of New York ” Brill Online

Few studies analyze minorities among the African American Muslims in the United States. The absence of ethnographic research shows that the current scholarship neglects the minority status of African American Twelver Shias.

Impostors, Antinomians and Pseudo-Sufis: Cataloguing the Miscreants | Journal of Islamic Studies | Oxford Academic

From the fourth/tenth century onwards, numerous Sufi authors found it necessary to identify groups they regarded as inauthentic, as false claimants to the Sufism they claimed to espouse. Particularly energetic in this regard was Ghazālī; in a treatise denouncing them together with other antinomians, he called for their eradication.

Engelbert Kaempfer: Exotic Attractions in Persia, 1684-1688: Travels & Observations – Mage Publishers

One of the most important sources on the history and culture of seventeenth-century Iran, Engelbert Kaempfer’s Amoenitatum Exoticarum was first published in Latin in 1712 but would not be translated for another two centuries, and then only partially, in German, in 1940.

Sunni and Shia Islamic Thought: Prospects and Challenges

The Shia Muslim Council of Southern California is an umbrella organization of 15 Shia Islamic centers in the southern California area. It was established September 17, 2014. The current elected board members of the Shia Muslim Council are: President: Imam Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini Vice-President: Hajj Khalil Dewji Secretary: Dr. Fatima Hakkak Treasurer: Hajj MehdiReza Hirji Councilor: Sheikh Mujahid Abdul Karim Councilor: Br.

Symposium on Islam and Sectarian De-escalation | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The First Annual Symposium on Islam, Dialogue, and Sectarian De-Escalation at the Harvard Kennedy School has gathered a diversity of voices from leading scholars, religious authorities, civic community leaders, and policymakers alike to push forward analytical understanding and dialogue on the pressing topic of sectarianism in the Muslim world.