By Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
ISBN-10: 0585069727
ISBN-13: 9780585069722
ISBN-10: 0791421228
ISBN-13: 9780791421222
The Imam, the Divine advisor, is the crucial element round which the Shi'ite faith turns. the facility of Shi'ism comes from the activities of the Imam. This name is reserved solely for the sucessors of the prophets of their undertaking. the writer exhibits that from the start of Shi'ite Islam until eventually the 10th century, the Imam was once essentially a grasp of information with supernatural powers, now not a jurist theologian. The Imam is the brink by which God and the creatures converse. he's hence a cosmic necessity, the foremost and the guts of the common economic system of the sacred.
The writer provides Shi'ism as a faith based on double dimensions the place the position of the chief is still always vital: perpetual initiation into divine secrets and techniques and persevered war of words with anti-initiation forces. with out esotericism, exotericism loses its that means. Early Imamism is an esoteric doctrine. traditionally, then, first and foremost of esotericism in Islam, we discover an initiatory, mystical, and occultist doctrine. this can be the 1st e-book to systematically discover the significant literature attributed to the Imams themselves with a view to recuperate the real unique imaginative and prescient. It restores a vital resource of esotericism on the planet of Islam.
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Muhammad b. "136 To Dâwûd b. 137 A second place where Imamite methodology on hadith is strikingly original is that of "divergence of traditions" (ikhtilâf al-hadîth*). Two ideas are at the base of ikhtilâf: the first is that of abrogation (naskh). "139 To the difficulties in revealing the technical criteria of Imamite hadith we should add the fact that systematic recording of the traditions of the imams in writing appears to date only from the period of Ja'far al-Sâdiq's* Imamate (circa 115/733-34).
177 Then other shadows or particles surge forth from this same pre-existential world; there is no information about just "when" this new creation took place or "how much" time separated it from the formation of the luminous entities of the Imams; but these luminous bodies, as has been seen, were created and dedicated themselves to the worship of their creator at a time when nothing had yet been brought into being. The creation of new shadows thus constitutes a later stage. '' Actually, several kinds of shadows are presented in a great number of traditions from different compilations, with no regard for order or clarity.
Almost all Muslim commentators apply the term to the contract of faith between God and men, in a pre-existential "time" before their birth. '"181 In Imamite traditions of a cosmogonic character, other developments have been elaborated around this central concept. The Pact takes place in the world of shadows or particles that for this reason is also called the World of the Pact ('âlam* al-mîthâq). 182 This primordial Covenant entails a quadruple oath in the Imamite tradition, although all four parts of the oath are rarely mentioned together in a single hadith: an oath of worship ('ubûdiyya*) of God, oaths of love and fidelity (walâya) toward Muhammad and his prophetic mission, toward the imams and their sacred Cause, and also toward the Mahdî as universal savior at the end of time:183 Then God made the prophets take an oath, saying to them: "Am I not your Lord?
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