In this study the author shows, by contrast, how central and creative the very nature of spirituality was to the development of Shi'i Islam, as well as to classical Muslim civilisation as a whole. In this comprehensive treatment, the esoteric nature of Shi'i spirituality emerges as an essential phenomenon for understanding Shi'i Islam.
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi is Professor of Classical Islamic Theology and Quranic Studies at the Ecole Pratique des hautes Etudes, Sorbonne (Paris) and Senior Research Fellow at The Institute of Ismaili Studies (London). His publications include Revelation and Falsification: the KitA b al-qirA AZA t of Ahmad b. Muhammad al-SayyA rA A(c) (with Etan Kohlberg) (2009), Dictionnaire du Coran (2007), Qu,est-ce que le shi'isme? (with Christian Jambet) (2004), Le voyage initiatique en terre d AZislam (1997), Lieux d AZislam: cultes et cultures de l AZAfrique A A Java (1996), and Le Guide Divin (1992) which was translated into English as The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism (1994). The current publication is a translation of La religion discrA A te (2006).
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