The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800-1989): Reading Ibn ʿarabī's Theory of Wilāya in the Shī

ISBN-13: 9783030226947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Leila Chamankhah

Recenzje

"The book also offers an interesting account of the intellectual transformation of Ayatollah Khomeini ... . The methodology used in this scholarship is a fascinating approach ... . The book is overall well-organised and engages readers throughout with summaries and introductions in every chapter. It provides original and important texts on Akbarian mysticism and wilaya. More importantly, the book is a much-needed work of research into Shi'i intellectual history and provides an important analytical methodology to future researchers." (Jaffer Abbas Mirza, Journal of Shi'a Islmaic Studies, Vol. 13 (1), 2020)

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One: Ibn ʿArabī and Wilāya        

Chapter Two: The Shaykhī School and Wilāya     

Chapter Three: The Schools of Tehran and Qum and Wilāya

Chapter Four: Khomeini, Wilāya and the Influence of Ibn ʿArabī

Chapter Five: Khomeini as the Jurist and Wilāya

Conclusion         

O autorze

Leila Chamankhah teaches at the University of Dayton, USA. Her areas of research interest are Iranian Studies, Islamic studies, Shia intellectual history, and Middle Eastern studies.

Blurb

This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya, on his Shīʿa successors and expositors in later centuries.  She also discusses the development and transformation of the conception of wilāya over two hundred years, from the esoteric school of Shaykhīsm to the politicization of wilāya in the theory of wilāyat al-faqīh.