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Early Nizari Ismailism: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of Khwajah Qasim Tushtari's Recognizing God
Ist Teil von
Iran : journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 2019-07, Vol.57 (2), p.245-266
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Khwajah Qasim Tushtari's recently discovered Recognizing God (Maʿrifat-i Khuday taʿala) is one of the only texts known to have survived from the early Alamut period of Ismaili Muslim history. It preserves evidence of the "new Invitation" (daʿwat-i jadid) to the Ismaili faith that al-Shahrastani (d. 548/1153) tells us was inaugurated by the Fatimid Imam al-Mustansir billah (d. 487/1094) and championed by Hasan-i Sabbah (d. 518/1124). The text emphasises that the ultimate purpose of human existence is to know God, and that the path to this knowledge is through the Imam of the Time. Likely composed between 525/1131 and 533/1139, the text contains near-contemporary references to Sanaʾi Ghaznawi (d. ca. 525/1131) and points to the very early development of Persian pious, devotional and homiletic poetry as well as the "mathnawi metre" in Ismaili environments. This metre was later famously used by Farid al-Din ʿAttar (d. ca. 618/1221) and Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 672/1273) in their mystical compositions. The article includes an introduction, critical edition and annotated translation to Qasim Tushtari's Recognizing God.