{"product_id":"walayah-in-the-fatimid-ismaili-tradition-9781438466262","title":"Walayah in the Fatimid Ismaili Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Isma''ili thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the \u003ci\u003eimam\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Faimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin''s work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Faimid Isma''ili chief missionary al-Mu''ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1078 CE), the concept of \u003ci\u003ewalayah\u003c\/i\u003e (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Faimid caliph-\u003ci\u003eimam\u003c\/i\u003es were the heirs of \u003ci\u003ewalayah\u003c\/i\u003e and by proposing new definitions of the \"seal of God''s friends\" (\u003ci\u003ekhatim al-awliya'' Allah\u003c\/i\u003e), al- Mu''ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University Press of New York (SUNY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039726338391,"sku":"9781438466262","price":24.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walayah-in-the-fatimid-ismaili-tradition-9781438466262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}