Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Islam - Shi'a

While these claims may be interpreted as an affront to God's power, an insult to human judgment and a justification for despotism, Shi'i Muslims in the eleventh century eagerly adopted them in their attempts to forge a 'rational' religious discourse. They utilized everything from literary studies and political theory to natural philosophy and metaphysical...

Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ("extremists"). This was owing to their specific interpretation of Islam, which included an "extreme" devotion to the Shi'i Imams and the family of the Prophet, and controversial religious ideas, such as the transmigration of souls into other human or sub-human forms.
Widely active in Iraq in the 8th and 9th centuries, the Ghulat developed a complex worldview and produced a rich religious literature. Until now,...

The Enemies of Al Islaam are the enemies of humanity. These forces studied our humanity for 1,000 years before our introduction into the universal scheme of things. What our enemy seen is that we have great potential to 'follow' or to be chattel as slaves or chattel. This is why An An'aam is the Chamber that addresses are phenomena in the human Nafs. Al Islaam has already been completed and perfected. Nothing can be added, nor subtracted. The Rasululllaah Muhammad (P), the 'Afro' Arabian of South Central' Arabia or the Tribe of Banu Hisham (The Aswad' Arab) completed this process of Al...

Of the few surviving Nizari Ismaili texts from the Alamut period, the Haft bab (Seven Chapters), which outlines the basic tenets of Ismaili philosophical theology, has proved to be the most popular. One of its many attractive features is its simple recounting of the most complicated Ismaili theological narratives, including the doctrine of the Resurrection (qiyamat). Produced around the year 1203, this small treatise was probably intended as an introduction to the Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat compiled by Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib (d. after 1242). For many years, the Haft...