Unity in Diversity

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Ph.D. (2007), École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, France), is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. His publications include several articles and book chapters. His forthcoming monograph deals with the early Ḥurūfī doctrine and its role in the intellectual and socio-political evolution of the post-Mongol Muslim East.

• List of ContributorsPréface, Mohammad Ali Amir-MoezziIntroduction: Conflicting Synergy of Patterns of Religious Authority in Islam, Orkhan Mir-KasimovPart One - Languages, Concepts and SymbolsLa transgression des normes du discours religieux : Remarques sur les shaṭaḥāt de Abū Bakr al-Shiblī, Pierre LoryReligious Authority & Apocalypse: Tafsīr as Experience in an Early Work by the Bāb, Todd LawsonLa transmigration des âmes. Une notion problématique dans l’ismaélisme d’époque fatimide, Daniel De SmetPromised One (mawʿūd) or Imaginary One (mawhūm)? Some Notes on Twelver Shīʿī Mahdī Doctrine and its Discussion in Writings of Bahāʾ Allāh, Armin EschraghiThe Green Isle in Shīʿī, Early Shaykhī, and Bābī-Bahāʾī Topography, Omid GhaemmaghamiPart Two - Post-Mongol Tendencies: Mysticism, Messianism and UniversalismThe Kūfan Ghulāt and Millenarian (Mahdist) Movements in Mongol-Türkmen Iran, William F. TuckerIntercessory Claims of Ṣūfī Communities during the 14th and 15th Centuries: “Messianic” Legitimizing Strategies on the Spectrum of Normativity, Devin DeWeeseUmmīs versus Imāms in the Ḥurūfī Prophetology: an Attempt at a Sunnī/Shīʿī Synthesis?, Orkhan Mir-KasimovThe Occult Challenge to Philosophy and Messianism in Early Timurid Iran: Ibn Turka’s Lettrism as a New Metaphysics, Matthew Melvin-KoushkiTimurid Experimentation with Eschatological Absolutism: Mīrzā Iskandar, Shāh Niʿmatullāh Walī, and Sayyid Sharīf Jurjānī in 815/1412, Ilker Evrim BinbaşPart Three - From Mysticism and Messianism to Charismatic Kingship: Ottomans, Safavids and MughalsL’idéologie d’État concurrencée par son interprétation : les Melāmī-Hamzevī dans l’empire ottoman, Paul BallanfatKaygusuz Abdal: A Medieval Turkish Saint and the Formation of Vernacular Islam in Anatolia, Ahmet T. KaramustafaThe World as a Hat: Symbolism and Materiality in Safavid Iran, Shahzad BashirPersian Nuqṭawīs and the Shaping of the Doctrine of “Universal Conciliation” (ṣulḥ-i kull) in Mughal India, Abbas AmanatMessianism, Heresy and Historical Narrative in Mughal India, A. Azfar MoinIndex