This publication provides an analysis of Hamid al-Din
al-Kirmani’s thought and sheds new light on the many layers of allusion which characterise his writings.
نشر معهد الدراسات الإسماعيلية كتاب ’العالم الشيعي: مسارات في التقليد والحداثة‘، وهو الكتاب الرابع في سلسلة التراث الإسلامي. امتلأت الفصول الستة عشرة في هذا المنشور الجديد برؤى جديدة حول عالم متعدد الأوجه من الإسلام الشيعي، في الماضي والحاضر. حيث يعرض المعتقدات والممارسات والتقاليد الشيعية على اختلافها وتنوعها عبر التاريخ، بما في ذلك مظاهرها في الفن والعمارة والموسيقى والسينما والأدب والقانون واللاهوت والحياة الفكرية.
The Shi‘i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity, the fourth book in the Muslim Heritage Series, has been published by The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS).
The world's 200 million Shi'i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways, united by reverence for the ahl al-bayt, the family of the Prophet.
This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the second of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Daʾirat al-Maʿarif-i Buzurg-i Islami, one of the most comprehe
Despite critical studies on Shi‘i Islam having increased in scope in the last few decades, to this day most Shi‘i beliefs and practices remain relatively unknown and poorly understood. One reason for this is that Western specialists in this field make up no more than thirty in number, in addition to a few rare Shi‘i scholars who apply historico-critical methodology and publish only in languages of Muslim-majority countries.
