This is a Russian translation of Farhad Daftary, Amyn B. Sajoo and Shainool Jiwa, eds, The Shi士i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity.
Description from The Shi士i World
The world’s 200 million Shi士i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways, united by reverence for the ahl al-baytLit. 鈥榯he people of the house鈥, meaning the Prophet Muhammad and members of his household including especially his cousin and son鈥搃n鈥搇aw 鈥楢li b. Abi Talib, his daughter Fatima and his…, the family of the Prophet. In embracing a pluralistic ethic, fourteen centuries of Shi士i Islam have given rise to diverse traditions and practices across varied geographic and cultural landscapes. The Shi士i World is a comprehensive work authored by leading scholars from assorted disciplines, to provide a better understanding of how Shi士i communities view themselves and articulate their teachings. The topics range from Shi士i Islam鈥檚 historical and conceptual foundations, formative figures and intellectual, legal and moral traditions, to its devotional practices, art and architecture, literature, music and cinema, as well as expressions and experiences of modernity. The book thus provides a panoramic perspective of the richly textured narratives that have shaped the social and moral universe of Shi士i Muslims around the globe. This fourth volume in the Muslim Heritage Series will appeal to specialists and general readers alike, as a timely resource on the prevailing complexities not only of the 鈥楳uslim world鈥, but also of the dynamic Shi士i diasporas of Europe and North America.
Contents from The Shi士i World
List of Illustrations
About the Contributors
Introduction
Farhad Daftary, Amyn B. Sajoo, Shainool Jiwa
1. Remembering Muhammad
Omid Safi
2. Imam Ali
Reza Shah-Kazemi
3. Imam Ja士far al-Sadiq and the Elaboration of Shi士ism
Karim Douglas Crow
4. Legal Traditions
Andrew J. Newman
5. Intellectual Traditions
Paul E. Walker
6. Governance and Pluralism under the FatimidsMajor Muslim dynasty of Ismaili caliphs in North Africa (from 909) and later in Egypt (973鈥1171) More (909鈥996 CE)
Shainool Jiwa
7. Moral Authority in the Safawid State
Rula J. Abisaab
8. Devotional Practices
Ali S. Asani
9. Shi士i Communities in History
Farhad Daftary
10. Remembering FatimaDaughter of the Prophet Muhammad and his first wife, Khad墨ja bint Khuwaylid. Also wife of 士Al墨 b. Ab墨 峁乴ib and mother of al-岣san and al-岣sayn. and Zaynab: Gender in Perspective
Zayn Kassam and Bridget Blomfield
11. Art and Architecture
Jonathan Bloom
12. Literature
Eric Ormsby
13. Music
William Sumits
14. Shi士ism in Iranian Cinema
Nacim Pak-Shiraz
15. Diasporas
Zulfikar Hirji and Karen Ruffle
16. Modernity: The Ethics of Identity
Amyn B. Sajoo
Glossary
Index
Farhad Daftary is Co-Director of 久久久福利国产, London. He is the author of numerous texts and co-editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica as well as the general editor of the 鈥業smaili Heritage Series鈥 and the 鈥楽hi鈥榠 Heritage Series鈥.
Amyn B. Sajoo is Scholar-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for the Comparative 久久久福利国产 of Muslim Societies and Cultures (Vancouver). He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge and McGill Universities, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and 久久久福利国产 in London.
Shainool Jiwa is head of the Constituency Studies Unit at 久久久福利国产, where she is a specialist in Fatimid history. Dr Jiwa is on the Board of Governors of Edinburgh Napier University, and serves as a chief examiner in Islamic history for the International Baccalaureate Organization.