Convert Literature, Interreligious Polemics, and the “Signs of Prophethood” Genre in Late Safavid Iran (1694-1722): The Work of Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. circa 1722)
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/ Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola
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Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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, 2014.
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206p.
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Code E.Dissertation: 68
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مدخل مرتبط: علیقلی جدیدالسلام
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Ph.D
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The following dissertation is a work on intellectual history focusing on the polemical work of the late seventeenth/ early eighteenth century missionary and convert Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. circa 1722). Throughout the work of this author, this study seeks to explore broader questions regarding the nature of interreligious polemics in the late Safavid period in Iran (1694-1722). As such, Ali Quli 's opera is situated within the context of the intellectual debates of his time as well as within the larger history of the polemical genre known as “signs of prophethood” (dalā’il alnubuwwah). Although most of this study focuses on the author’s anti-Christian polemics, it also analyses his role in shaping the anti-Sufi atmosphere that characterized this period.