This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the fifth of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian D幣irat al-Ma平rif-i Buzurg-i Islm朝, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shi平i Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shi平i Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
This volume contains articles on the great Iranian polymath, Ab笛 Ray畍ツn 温鉛-京朝姻笛稼朝, Sayyid(pl. sda/asyd) Arabic term for lord or master. It is a pre-Islamic term and refers to a person who possesses dignity or enjoys an exalted position among his people. Amongst… 畍asan 京顎逮稼笛姻糸朝, the prominent Shi平i scholar of the Najaf seminary, the Khursn朝 ascetic and Sufi Bishr al-畍つf朝, and the Mu平tazil朝 theologian Bishr b. al-Mu平tamir. It also contains a host of other articles on topics as diverse as the history of cities of 京顎一鞄偵姻偵 and Cairo, the famous poem known as the Burda written in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the institution of the Caliphate, the life and work of the great 20th-century French Islamologist Henry Corbin.
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温鉛-京朝姻笛稼朝
Bishr al-畍つf朝
Bishr al-Mar朝s朝
Bishr b. al-Mu平tamir
Bishr b. al-Sar朝
Bismil Sh朝rz朝
京朝壊顎岳笛稼
B朝zhan wa Man朝zhah
Blue Mosque of Tabr朝z
BohraIndian community of Musta平li Ismailis, now found primarily in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, Yemen, Egypt and other parts of the world.
Brotherhood
Budayl b. Warq幣
京顎鞄鉛笛鉛
京顎逮稼笛姻糸朝
京顎一偵幣
Bukayr b. Mhn
京顎一鞄偵姻偵
Bukhr朝 Arfinj朝
al-Bukhr朝, Mu畍ammad
Bukhr朝, Sayyid Jall al-D朝n
Bulgha
京顎鉛笛一
Bunah
京顎稼糸偵姻
Bundar bd, Complex
京顎稼糸偵姻 b. al-畍usayn Sh朝rz朝
al-京顎稼糸偵姻朝
京顎稼朝界鞄温鞄
Burayda b. al-畍u畊ayb
Burda
京顎姻乙鞄笛岳鞄庄霞霞温
京顎姻鞄偵稼
京顎姻鞄偵稼 al-D朝n Ghar朝b
京顎姻鞄偵稼 al-D朝n Jnam
京顎姻鞄偵稼 al-D朝n Mu畍aqqiq Tirmidh朝
京顎姻鞄偵稼-i Q畊i平
京顎姻鞄偵稼p笛r朝
Burial
温鉛-京顎姻壊朝
京顎姻笛逮庄姻糸
京顎姻笛逮庄姻糸, Congregational Mosque
京顎姻笛逮庄姻糸朝
京顎姻噛笛霞温
温鉛-京笛壊鞄温稼逮朝
温鉛-京笛畊Ｄr朝
粥鉛-京笛壊稼温敬朝
京顎畊r偵 温鉛-皆鞄偵馨The mediaeval region of Syria, today comprising Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.
京笛壊岳偵稼
Bust朝, Ab笛 al-畍asan
al-Bust朝, Ab笛 al-Qsim
京笛霞庄糸壊
B笛yir A畍mad
Buy笛tt-i Sal畊anat朝
Buzghush Sh朝rz朝
al-B笛zjn朝, Ab笛 al-Waf幣
B笛zjn朝, Darw朝sh 平Al朝
Buzurg b. Shahriyr
Buzurgmihr
京顎噛顎姻乙-雨馨朝糸
Cairo
Calendar
Caliphate
Calligraphy
Carpets and Carpet-Making
Categories
Causality
遺鞄温乙鞄偵稼庄霞偵稼
Chaghaty Khn
Chaghaty Khnate
Chaghatay, Language and Literature
温鉛-遺鞄温乙鞄馨朝稼朝
Chahr Ma畍ツl wa Bakhtiyr朝
Chahr-bgh, Madrasa
遺鞄温鉛温恢朝
Chldirn (ald脹ran)
遺鞄温姻一鞄朝
Cherkess (Circassian)
遺鞄庄乙庄稼朝
Chihil Sut笛n (I畊fahn)
Chihil Sut笛n (Qazw朝n)
Chillah
Chirgh-i Dihl朝
Chirgh-i Rawshan
Chishtiyya
遺鞄笛乙偵稼
Ch笛pn Oghullari
遺鞄笛沿偵稼庄糸壊
Circumcision
Clime
Clothing
Corbin, Henry
Cosmology and Cosmogony
Creation (in Islamic Philosophy)
Crown
The Crusades
Cyrus the Great
Dbbat al-Ar畍
Dd, Taq朝 al-D朝n Mu畍ammad
禽温畍l偵稼
Dahr (in the Qur幣n)
Dahriyya
Da畍w al-Ar畍
Clearly the editors of ISLA have selected articles they consider will augment the existing reference sources and they have completed this selection task with acumen and skill. The work as a whole remains, however, a specialist encyclopaedia […] – or perhaps more accurately, it is an encyclopaedia for specialists […]. In that sense, it is a valuable addition […] to the reference work available at present. Perhaps its greatest merit is that it brings to an international audience a key example of and an excellent advertisement for high-quality Iranian scholarship which has hitherto been available but known only to a few.
Robert Gleave, Journal of the American Oriental Society
[The] publication of Encyclopaedia Islamica is a notable step forward in including the Shia viewpoint in scholarship on Islam.
Mousa al-Reza Wahdati, Journal of Shia Islamic Studies
Printed on coated paper, the five volumes so far published are an impressive achievement both in production as well as in scholarship related to Persian themes.
Yashab Tur, Islamic Sciences
Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies, consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver 皆鞄庄i壊馨See Shia., Zaydism and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with 今叔利.