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Beyond the Quran Early Ismaili ta’wil and the Secrets of the Prophets
David Hollenberg
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hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: HRHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Ismailism, one of the three major branches of Shiism, is best known for ta’wil, an esoteric, allegorizing scriptural exegesis. Beyond the Qur’?n: Early Ismaili ta’wil and the Secrets of the Prophets is the first book-length study of this interpretive genre. Analyzing sources composed by tenth-century Ismaili missionaries in light of social-science theories of cognition and sectarianism, David Hollenberg argues that the missionaries used ta’wil to instill in acolytes a set of symbolic patterns, forms, and “logics.” This shared symbolic world bound the community together as it created a gulf between community members and those outside the movement. Hollenberg thus situates ... Read more
Ismailism, one of the three major branches of Shiism, is best known for ta’wil, an esoteric, allegorizing scriptural exegesis. Beyond the Qur’?n: Early Ismaili ta’wil and the Secrets of the Prophets is the first book-length study of this interpretive genre. Analyzing sources composed by tenth-century Ismaili missionaries in light of social-science theories of cognition and sectarianism, David Hollenberg argues that the missionaries used ta’wil to instill in acolytes a set of symbolic patterns, forms, and “logics.” This shared symbolic world bound the community together as it created a gulf between community members and those outside the movement. Hollenberg thus situates ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611176780
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V9781611176780
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About David Hollenberg
David Hollenberg is an assistant professor of Arabic and islamic studies at the University of Oregon, USA. He is author of numerous articles on Ismailism and coeditor of The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition. Hollenberg is the founder of the Yemen Manuscripts Digitization Initiative, a collective of scholars and librarians devoted to preserving the manuscripts of Yemen.
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