عنوان

The envoys of the Hidden Imam: Religious institutions and the politics of the Twelver Occultation doctrine

شماره

TL48471

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The envoys of the Hidden Imam: Religious institutions and the politics of the Twelver Occultation doctrine

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Edmund Hayes

نام ساير پديدآوران

Lewis, Franklin

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Chicago

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

559

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Qutbuddin, Tahera; Schmidtke, Sabine; Walker, Paul

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-07988-2

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Chicago

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

In 260 AH/ 874 CE, the Eleventh Imam of the Imami Shi`a died, precipitating a succession crisis that was ultimately solved by replacing this line of living, visible leaders with a messianic figure, hidden from humankind who will return at the end of time to rule in peace and justice. This dissertation seeks to answer why this the doctrine of the Occultation of the Twelfth Imam was successful, among all the possible solutions to the crisis in the Imamate that were proposed in the first few years after the death of the Eleventh Imam. I show how the financial-sacral institutions that had increasingly surrounded the Imams and mediated their presence to the community in the pre-Occultation era came to replace the authority of the Imam after 260/874. I analyze the textual sources for the earliest phase of development of Twelver Occultation ideas against the backdrop of the contestation of authority between members of the family of the Imam (especially the mother and brother of the Eleventh Imam) as well as the household retainers of the Imam, and the agents (wakīls) of the financial-sacral system. These contestations clustered around a number of key events, the meaning of which were shifted and erased according to the requirements of later doctrine, but which still leave residual traces throughout our sources. Of particular importance was the succession dispute over the inheritance the Eleventh Imam, claims to which were associated with the spiritual legacy of the Imamate. The success of the Imam's dissolute brother, Ja`far 'the Liar', in winning the inheritance dispute led to a split in the Imami elite between those who followed Ja`far, and the financial agents who opposed Ja`far and claimed to preserve the legacy of the old Imam on behalf of the hidden Twelfth Imam, in particular the obscure agent Hājiz b. Yazīd. A further crisis ensued after the deaths of the old guard. However, quasi-Imamic authority was gradually arrogated to a single pre-eminent representative of the class of financial-sacral agents of the Imam: the so-called 'Envoy' (Ar. safīr), Abū Ja`far al-`Amrī (d. 305/917). His authority was contested both by members of the old guard of fiscal agents, and also by charismatic bābs associated with the gnostic tradition.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religious history; Islamic Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Authority;Doctrine;Imam;Islam;Shi'ism;Tax

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bitar, Noor H.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lewis, Franklin

تقسيم فرعي

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

The University of Chicago

شماره بازیابی

1731928273; 3724478

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y