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Master of the Age - An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate (Arabic, Hardcover)
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Master of the Age - An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate (Arabic, Hardcover)
Series: Ismaili Texts and Translations
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Few doctrines in Islam have engendered as much contention and
disagreement as those surrounding the imamate, the office of
supreme leader of the Muslim community after the death of the
Prophet. In the medieval period while the caliphate still existed,
rivalry among the claimants to that most lofty position was
particularly intense. The early 5th/11th-century Ismaili da'i Hamid
al-Din al-Kirmani worked for most of his life in the eastern lands
of the Islamic world, principally within the hostile domain of the
Abbasid caliphs and the Buyid amirs.At a critical point he was
summoned by the da'wa to Egypt where he taught and wrote for
several years before returning once again to Iran and Iraq. About
405/1015, just prior to his move from Iraq to Cairo, he composed a
treatise he called Lights to Illuminate the Proof of the Imamate
(al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama) in the bold hope of convincing
Fakhr al-Mulk, the Shi'i wazir of the Buyids in Baghdad, to abandon
the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. For that
purpose he produced a long, interconnected series of
philosophically sophisticated proofs, all leading logically to the
absolute necessity of the imamate. This work is thus unique both in
the precision of its doctrine and in the historical circumstance
surrounding its composition. The text appears here in a modern
critical edition of the Arabic original with a complete
translation, introduction and notes.
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