Yazar
Melvin-Koushki, Matthew
Basım Yeri
Cambridge -
Cambridge University Press
Konu
16th century, Christian union, Competition, Ecumenical movement, Historians, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Mysticism, Occultism, Philosophy, Popularity, Science, Sixteenth century, Specialists, Sunnites, Teachers
Tür
Kitap
Dil
eng,fas
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Hayır
Kütüphane
Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası
ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2022.62
Kayıt Numarası
cdi_proquest_journals_2802236312
Lokasyon
Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection, Social Science Database, ProQuest Central
Notlar
That Safavid Iran was scene to a boom in the occult sciences ( ʿulum-i gharība ) is now beginning to be acknowledged by specialists; what has yet to be appreciated is the extent to which that boom represented a smooth and conscious continuation of Mamluk, Aqquyunlu, Ottoman and especially Timurid Sunni precedent. In particular, lettrism ( ʿilm-i ḥurūf ), developed by the Pythagoreanizing, imamophile New Brethren of Purity as universal imperial science, was embraced by leading Safavid thinkers and doers as a primary Sunni means of Shiʿizing Iran. This occult continuity is epitomized by the oeuvre of Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī “ʿIyānī” (fl. 1576), the most prolific Persian author on lettrism of the sixteenth century and teacher to Shaykh Bahāʾī (d. 1621) himself. His Unveiling Secrets ( Kashf al-asrār )—a passionate prosimetric paean to Imam ʿAlī as cosmic principle in strictly Akbarian-Būnian terms, like Rajab al-Bursī’s (d. after 1410) work before it—is contextualized and translated here as a case in point.
Telif Hakkı
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies
Görüntüle
Iranian studies, 2023-04, Vol.56 (2), p.277-307
