Oriento, 65/2 (2022), 115-127.
http://www.j-orient.com/backnumber/

Abstract:
Although Imamology has always been central to the theological doctrines of Twelver Shī`ism (al-Ithnā `Asharīya), the matter of how it was developed and revised during the Il-Khanid period has not yet been satisfyingly studied. According to previous research, although Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274) and his disciple al-`Allāma al-Ḥillī (d. 1325) tried to integrate the Islamic philosophy which had been systematized by Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037) into their traditional theology, the philosophy had little effect on their Imamology. With regard to theologians’ attitude to Sufism, it has been the common view that most Twelver thinkers did not approve of merging Sufi ideas into their theology before Ḥaydar Āmulī (d. 1385), who is known as a Shī`ite adherent of Ibn `Arabī (d. 1240). This paper argues that Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn al-Ḥillī (d. 1369/70), who was a son and disciple of al-`Allāma and a teacher of Āmulī, but who as yet has been scarcely studied, introduced the philosophical theory of the soul and the training theory of Sufi sm into his Imamology. It also shows that philosophy and Sufism already had influenced the Imamology of Twelver Shi`ism in the 14th century. Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn’s predecessors such as al-`Allāma had limited the role of the imams in divine assistance (luṭf) to physical actions and denied any impact on people’s hearts. However, Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn interwove these outside theories into traditional theology, and developed his Imamology in that he expanded the imams’ instructive role in divine assistance into the psychological realm. Moreover, he developed a new description of the imams’ infallibility (`iṣma): he formulated that the imams can act rightly in all circumstances by virtue of the perfect asceticism (zuhd), achieved by the perfection of their rational souls.

Shi‘i Theology (Kashf al-Murad fi Sharh Tajrid al-I‘tiqad)

Ep. 4 | The Meeting of Shi’ism and Sufism

PRACTICES OF DEVOTION TO THE AHL-E BAIT
AT HOME AND IN DIASPORA:
MATERIALITY, RITUAL, AND THE DIGITAL SENSES
Tuesday, May 23 2023
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
A one-day workshop co-organized by
Michel Boivin (CNRS-CESAH) and Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto)
Campus Condorcet – Bâtiment de Recherche Sud
Room 0.015 – 5 cours des Humanités – 93300 Aubervilliers
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/Ahl-e-bait.pdf

Al-Mahdi Institute Research Seminars

All seminars are hybrid with instructions for joining online and in-person provided on each of the links below. All times are UK times.

Wednesday 10^th May, 15:00 – 16:30

Before “After Virtue”: The Philosophy of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

Mehdi Ali, University of Southern California

Wednesday 31^st May, 15:00 – 16:30

A letter from ʿAlī on the history of the caliphate: A key source text

Nebil Husayn, University of Miami

Wednesday 14^th June, 15:00 – 16:30

Counter-securitization among Shia Muslims in Birmingham

Guillermo Martín-Sáiz, Durham University

The Clergy and the Modern Middle East
Shi’i Political Activism in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/clergy-and-the-modern-middle-east-9780755644872/

Incidents of Anti-Shiism, March 2023