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Buddha or Yūdhāsaf? Images of the Hidden Imām in al-Ṣadūq’s Kamāl al-dīn
- Author(s):
- Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations (view group) , George Warner
- Editor(s):
- Michael Pregill
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
- Subject(s):
- Islam--Study and teaching, Islam, Middles Ages, Shīʻah
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Islamic literature, prophets in Islam, Life of the Buddha, Islamic studies, Medieval Islam, Shi`ism
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/22z5-6z75
- Abstract:
- This article is an exploration of how a fourth/tenth-century Muslim author makes ingenious use of radically extra-canonical and unusual narratives for the defense of serious theology. The theology in question is the occultation of the Twelfth Imām, a defining tenet of Twelver Shi’ism. The extra-canonical narratives, meanwhile, include a selection of Arabic stories about the Buddha. The study explores how the unexpected appearance of these stories in the text, al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq’s Kamāl al-dīn wa-tamām al-niʿmah, reflects and responds to the epistemological challenges facing its author, and how, far from being a peripheral curiosity, they constitute part of a highly developed authorial strategy.
- Notes:
- This is a stable archival PDF of an open-access, peer-reviewed journal article originally published at www.mizanproject.org/journal/.
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- Published as:
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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