Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam

List of Contributors ......................................................................................... ix
Préface ................................................................................................................. xv
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Introduction: Conflicting Synergy of Patterns of Religious
Authority in Islam ...................................................................................... 1
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
Part One
Languages, Concepts and Symbols
La transgression des normes du discours religieux : Remarques
sur les shaṭaḥāt de Abū Bakr al-Shiblī ................................................. 23
Pierre Lory
Religious Authority & Apocalypse: Tafsīr as Experience in an
Early Work by the Bāb .............................................................................. 39
Todd Lawson
La transmigration des âmes. Une notion problématique dans
l’ismaélisme d’époque fatimide .............................................................. 77
Daniel De Smet
Promised One (mawʿūd) or Imaginary One (mawhūm)?
Some Notes on Twelver Shīʿī Mahdī Doctrine and its Discussion
in Writings of Bahāʾ Allāh ........................................................................ 111
Armin Eschraghi
To the Abode of the Hidden One: The Green Isle in Shīʿī,
Early Shaykhī, and Bābī-Bahāʾī Sacred Topography ........................ 137
Part two
post-Mongol tendencies:
mysticism, Messianism and Universalism
The Kūfan Ghulāt and Millenarian (Mahdist) Movements in
Mongol-Türkmen Iran ............................................................................... 177
William F. Tucker
Intercessory Claims of Ṣūfī Communities during the 14th and
15th Centuries: ‘Messianic’ Legitimizing Strategies on the
Spectrum of Normativity .......................................................................... 197
Devin DeWeese
Ummīs versus Imāms in the Ḥurūfī Prophetology: An Attempt at
a Sunnī/Shīʿī Synthesis? ............................................................................ 221
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
The Occult Challenge to Philosophy and Messianism in Early
Timurid Iran: Ibn Turka’s Lettrism as a New Metaphysics ............ 247
Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Timurid Experimentation with Eschatological Absolutism:
Mīrzā Iskandar, Shāh Niʿmatullāh Walī, and Sayyid Sharīf
Jurjānī in 815/1412 ........................................................................................ 277
İlker Evrim Binbaş
Part three
from mysticism and messianism to Charismatic kingship:
Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals
L’idéologie d’État concurrencée par son interprétation :
les Melāmī-Hamzevī dans l’empire ottoman ..................................... 307
Paul Ballanfat
Kaygusuz Abdal: A Medieval Turkish Saint and the Formation of
Vernacular Islam in Anatolia .................................................................. 329
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
The World as a Hat: Symbolism and Materiality in Safavid Iran ..... 343
Shahzad Bashir
Persian Nuqṭawīs and the Shaping of the Doctrine of “Universal
Conciliation” (ṣulḥ-i kull) in Mughal India ......................................... 367
Abbas Amanat
Messianism, Heresy and Historical Narrative in Mughal India ......... 393
A. Azfar Moin
Index .................................................................................................................... 415