The concept of al-mahdī is one of the most important theological ideas in Shiʿism. Its literary meaning is ‘the rightly guided’, and this is how it was probably used in the first decades after the Prophet Muhammad. In Twelver Shiʿism it has come to denote the hidden Imam, who will one day return to redeem his followers and restore justice on earth, and in that sense it is akin to the Christian idea of the Messiah. Among scholars of early Islam there is near consensus on the view that the transition of meaning, from its literal meaning ‘the rightly guided’ to an eschatological redeemer, occurred with the Shiʿite rebel leader al-Mukhtār b. Abī ʿUbayd (d. 686) when he applied it to Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya, the son of ʿAlī. In the present stud...
Abstract : This paper tries to reveal the concept of ma’rifa developed by Ibn al-‘Arabi (d. 1260), e...
Maqāshid shsyarī‘ah has a tremendous urgency to the process of Islamic law’s adaptability and modern...
This paper aims to explore the emergence, continuity and shifting of the meaning of maqāṣid al-sharī...
The concept of al-mahdī is one of the most important theological ideas in Shiʿism. Its literary mean...
This paper discusses the origins of Mahdiism (al-Mahdi al-Muntaẓar) that are constructed using the m...
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the origins of Mahdawiyah hadiths, the theological ...
The first Shiʿi leader with true political power – although it was limited in space and time – after...
This study investigates Muqātil ibn Sulaymān's (d. 150/767) hermeneutics in his three extant Qur'an ...
The aim of this thesis, as its title indicates, is to investigate the origin of the idea of the Mah...
The belief in the expected redeemer or the Mahdī is a well-known concept in the history of Islam. Ho...
Islam is the Deen that fits to the man's nature. Allah Almighty sent his various messengers to conve...
Confusion in response to meaning has become an issue in the study of al-ma‘rifah, despite having si...
This paper addresses the impact of the Almohad caliphs’ claim to religious authority, their religiou...
Shīʿa is one of the earliest branches within Islam. Shīʿa Muslims today make upa sizable minority am...
This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥādīth) found in Ibn Isḥāq...
Abstract : This paper tries to reveal the concept of ma’rifa developed by Ibn al-‘Arabi (d. 1260), e...
Maqāshid shsyarī‘ah has a tremendous urgency to the process of Islamic law’s adaptability and modern...
This paper aims to explore the emergence, continuity and shifting of the meaning of maqāṣid al-sharī...
The concept of al-mahdī is one of the most important theological ideas in Shiʿism. Its literary mean...
This paper discusses the origins of Mahdiism (al-Mahdi al-Muntaẓar) that are constructed using the m...
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the origins of Mahdawiyah hadiths, the theological ...
The first Shiʿi leader with true political power – although it was limited in space and time – after...
This study investigates Muqātil ibn Sulaymān's (d. 150/767) hermeneutics in his three extant Qur'an ...
The aim of this thesis, as its title indicates, is to investigate the origin of the idea of the Mah...
The belief in the expected redeemer or the Mahdī is a well-known concept in the history of Islam. Ho...
Islam is the Deen that fits to the man's nature. Allah Almighty sent his various messengers to conve...
Confusion in response to meaning has become an issue in the study of al-ma‘rifah, despite having si...
This paper addresses the impact of the Almohad caliphs’ claim to religious authority, their religiou...
Shīʿa is one of the earliest branches within Islam. Shīʿa Muslims today make upa sizable minority am...
This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥādīth) found in Ibn Isḥāq...
Abstract : This paper tries to reveal the concept of ma’rifa developed by Ibn al-‘Arabi (d. 1260), e...
Maqāshid shsyarī‘ah has a tremendous urgency to the process of Islamic law’s adaptability and modern...
This paper aims to explore the emergence, continuity and shifting of the meaning of maqāṣid al-sharī...