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Islamic Messianism : The Idea of Mahdi in Twelver Shism
author
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Sachedina, Abdulaziz Abdulhussein.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0873954424
print isbn13
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9780873954426
ebook isbn13
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9780585069241
language
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English
subject
Mahdism, Shih--Doctrines.
publication date
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1981
lcc
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BP166.93.S22eb
ddc
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297/.23
subject
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Mahdism, Shih--Doctrines.
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Islamic Messianism
The Idea of Mahdi in Twelver Shi'ism
Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina
State University of New York Press ALBANY
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Published by
State University of New York Press, Albany 1981 State University of New York
All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Sachedina, Abdulaziz Abdulhussein, 1952 Islamic messianism. Bibliography and Index 1. Mahdism. I. Title. BP 166.93.S22297'.238016767 ISBN 0873954424 ISBN 0873954580 (pbk.)
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To Fatima
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Contents
Transliteration
viii
Preface
ix
1. Introduction: The Islamic Messiah, Al-Mahdi
1
2. The Twelver Messianic Imam, Al-Qa'Im Al-Mahdi
39
3. The Occultation of the Imamate Mahdi
78
4. The Imamate of the Hidden Imam
109
5. The Return of the Mahdi
150
6. Conclusion
180
Appendix: Index of the Imam and the Imamate in al-Kulayni's Kitab al-hujja in al-Kafi
184
Glossary
197
Chart: The Imamite Imams
196
Notes
204
Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations
218
Index
224
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Transliteration
Transliteration of Arabic and Persian terms and phrases into English in the present work follows in general the method of the Library of Congress as outlined in the Cataloguing Service Bulletin, 49 (December, 1958), except for the omission of diacritical long marks and dots.
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Preface
No doubt an Imam will risean Imam who will govern according to the name of God and the blessings.
For more than a millenium the idea of the future coming of the Mahdi has provided Shi'i piety with a unique aspiration in the redemption through the appearance of the twelfth Imam. Modern western scholars have written virtually nothing on the subject of the Mahdi idea in Imamite Shi'ism, and this became a motive behind the present work which grew out of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Toronto in 1976. I felt it necessary to examine the vast literature on this subject and make my findings available for other scholars without losing sight of the rigorous demands of modern scholarship. The extent to which I have been able to achieve this purpose was due in large measure to the assistance I have received from my professors and from many friends and colleagues in Toronto, Mashhad in Iran and Najaf in Iraq.
I wish to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to Professors G.M. Wickens and R.M. Savory who kindly read revised and expanded versions of my work and offered many valuable suggestions and incisive critical comments that guided my research. I also wish to thank Professor M.E. Marmura who kindly agreed to comment on the chapter on Shi'ite theology. I am also grateful to Professors Wilfrid Madelung, W.M. Watt and Muhsin Mahdi for having read the work and made some substantial comments pertaining to the theological problems discussed therein.
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I am also indebted to Sayyid Fadil al-Malani of Mashhad and Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Khirsan of Najaf who were particularly helpful on problems of kalam, while Professor Wa'izzada Khurasani helped with many obscurely worded hadith reports. I would also like to acknowledge the help of various professors at the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies at the University of Mashhad with whom I had many useful discussions related to this book. In Charlottesville, my colleagues at the Department of Religious Studies, Professors Victor W. Turner and Kyle P. McCarter read the entire work and made numerous and pertinent suggestions for improving it. In preparing this study for publication, I received much encouragement from William D. Eastman, director of the State University of New York Press.
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