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

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List of Contributors Preface, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi Introduction: Conflicting Synergy of Patterns of Religious Authority in Islam, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov Part One - Languages, Concepts and Symbols La transgression des normes du discours religieux : Remarques sur les shatahat de Abu Bakr al-Shibli, Pierre Lory Religious Authority & Apocalypse: Tafsir as Experience in an Early Work by the Bab, Todd Lawson La transmigration des ames. Une notion problematique dans l'ismaelisme d'epoque fatimide, Daniel De Smet Promised One (maw'ud) or Imaginary One (mawhum)? Some Notes on Twelver Shi'i Mahdi Doctrine and its Discussion in Writings of Baha' Allah, Armin Eschraghi The Green Isle in Shi'i, Early Shaykhi, and Babi-Baha'i Topography, Omid Ghaemmaghami Part Two - Post-Mongol Tendencies: Mysticism, Messianism and Universalism The Kufan Ghulat and Millenarian (Mahdist) Movements in Mongol-Turkmen Iran, William F. Tucker Intercessory Claims of Sufi Communities during the 14th and 15th Centuries: Messianic Legitimizing Strategies on the Spectrum of Normativity, Devin DeWeese Ummis versus Imams in the Hurufi Prophetology: an Attempt at a Sunni/Shi'i Synthesis?, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov The Occult Challenge to Philosophy and Messianism in Early Timurid Iran: Ibn Turka's Lettrism as a New Metaphysics, Matthew Melvin-Koushki Timurid Experimentation with Eschatological Absolutism: Mirza Iskandar, Shah Ni'matullah Wali, and Sayyid Sharif Jurjani in 815/1412, Ilker Evrim Binbas Part Three - From Mysticism and Messianism to Charismatic Kingship: Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals L'ideologie d'Etat concurrencee par son interpretation : les Melami-Hamzevi dans l'empire ottoman, Paul Ballanfat Kaygusuz Abdal: A Medieval Turkish Saint and the Formation of Vernacular Islam in Anatolia, Ahmet T. Karamustafa The World as a Hat: Symbolism and Materiality in Safavid Iran, Shahzad Bashir Persian Nuqtawis and the Shaping of the Doctrine of Universal Conciliation (sulh-i kull) in Mughal India, Abbas Amanat Messianism, Heresy and Historical Narrative in Mughal India, A. Azfar Moin Index

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