Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science

Name: Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science
Author: Melvin-Koushki, Matthew

İsim	Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science
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

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Occult Ecumenism: Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī's Unveiling Secrets as Exemplar of Timurid-Safavid Sunni-Shiʿi Science

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.

Görüntüle Iranian studies, 2023-04, Vol.56 (2), p.277-307