Nūrollāh Šūštarī on Shi’i Notables

Nūrollāh Šūštarī’s (d. 1019/1610) Maǧāles al-moʾmenīn (Assemblies of the Believers) is an extensive work on distinguished Shi’i figures throughout history. The author, trained in Safavid lands, composed this work while residing in the Mughal empire. There, he was associated with the court of Akbar (...

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Auteur principal: Pūrǧawādī, Riḍā (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2022
Dans: Entangled Religions
Année: 2022, Volume: 13, Numéro: 5
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Šuštarī, Nūrallāh Ibn-ʿAbdallāh aš- 1549-1610 / Šuštarī, Nūrallāh Ibn-ʿAbdallāh aš- 1549-1610, Maǧālis al-muʿminīn / Contenu / Chiisme / Conflit religieux
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AG Vie religieuse
AX Dialogue interreligieux
BJ Islam
KBM Asie
NBN Ecclésiologie
TJ Époque moderne
Sujets non-standardisés:B Safavids and Naqšbandīya
B Sunni-Shi’i controversy
B Shi’i bio-bibliographical works
B Shi’ism
B Nūrollāh Šūštarī
B Sufism
B Maǧāles al-moʾmenīn
B Safavid Shi’ism
B Shi’ism in the Mughal court
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Résumé:Nūrollāh Šūštarī’s (d. 1019/1610) Maǧāles al-moʾmenīn (Assemblies of the Believers) is an extensive work on distinguished Shi’i figures throughout history. The author, trained in Safavid lands, composed this work while residing in the Mughal empire. There, he was associated with the court of Akbar (r. 963-1014/[1556]-1605). The present article introduces various aspects of Šūštarī’s project and examines what might have motivated him to undertake such a significant task. It also touches on the internal challenges found in the circles of the Shi’i scholars, with which the author was intellectually engaged, and discusses later critics of the work, who blamed its author for including in it many Sufi figures of the classical and post-classical period. Furthermore, the possibility that the composition of the Maǧāles caused its author’s death will be discussed. With his authorship of this work, Šūštarī was pioneering a trend of writing Shi’i bio-bibliographical works, to which many scholars contributed up until the twentieth century.
ISSN:2363-6696
Contient:Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.46586/er.13.2022.9636