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• Title: Divine Actions, Creation, And the Human Fate After Death in 9th/15Th-Century Imami Shi'ite Theology.
• Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 229 KB

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The 9th/15th century was an important period for Imami Shi'ite scholarship. Following the destruction of the Sunni caliphate in 656/1258 and the religiously tolerant period of the Il-Khans, Twelver Shi'ism had become more and more influential in Iran and Iraq. During the 8th/14th century usuli Twelver Shi'ism had developed. Its clear distinction between laypeople and scholars and its stress on taqlid led to a gradual increase of the role of scholars in society, where they took over tasks previously designated for the hidden Imam. Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i was one of the most important Imami Shi'ite theologians of this time. He is certainly a fitting subject for an enquiry into the parameters that determined a period of Muslim theology which is almost unknown to Western researchers. Prior to Sabine Schmidtke's recent monograph on Ibn Abi Jumhur, which is the subject of this review article, there has only been a brief but very informative sketch of Ibn Abi Jumhur's theology by Wilferd Madelung. (1) Schmidtke's important book breaks new ground in the study of Muslim intellectual history and shows the richness of an intellectual atmosphere in which doctrines from Ash'arism, Mu'tazilism, falsafa, and Sufism were discussed and compared, and where the accepted solution to a theological problem was often formed by a combination of these traditions. Schmidtke's reconstruction of Ibn Abi Jumhur's teachings is thorough and generally convincing. But often her inquiry stops at a careful doxography of Ibn Abi Jumhur and neglects to explore the function of certain doctrines in the overall system of Shi'ite theology. Ibn Abi Jumhur's synthesis of falsafa and Ash'arite kalam merits a deeper analysis than that which is contained in Schmidtke's book. Regarding his positions on the afterlife, Schmidtke's analysis that he taught metempsychosis cannot be substantiated.

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