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Converting Persia – Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire Rula Jurdi Abisaab

CONVERTING PERSIA

Book Contents

• Maps
• Safavid Persia
• Jabal ‘Amil (South Lebanon) in the Modern Period xii
• Introduction
• Sufi Regalia and Legal Banners: The Safavids and the
• Emigré Arab Jurists
• The Sovereign and Religious ‘Authenticity’
• Domestic Contests: The Persian Aristocracy, the Qizilbash and the ‘Amili Jurists
• ‘Inventing’ Shi’ism: Al-Karaki (d. AH/CE) as a Court Jurist
• Friday Prayer: Tailoring Shi’ism to Statehood
• From Marginality to Privilege ‘Orthodoxy’: Ostracizing Sufis and Storytellers
• Instruments of Conversion: Public Cursing
• Translating and Transporting the Word of Law
• Afterthoughts
• The Mujtahids Navigate the Sovereign’s World
• Husayn b. ‘Abd al-Samad (d. AH/CE) at the Court of
• Shah Tahmasb in Qazvin
• Aims of a Polemic
• Supreme and False Mujtahids
• vi Converting Persia
• To Remedy the Shah from Mania: Ritual Purity and Friday Prayer
• Conversion and Consent in Herat
• ‘Normalizing’ Sunnism?
• The Cleric Against the King
• Replacing the King
• Afterthoughts
• Summary and Conclusions
• Shah ‘Abbas and Imperial Reign as Clerical Discipline, –CE
• The ‘Knighted’ Jurists and the Restructuring of the State
• To Benefit the Learned and the Lay: Shi’ite Books under Shah ‘Abbas
• Afflicted by the Company of Kings: ‘The Baha’i is who I am, and great is my worth!’
• Imperial Uses of Clerical Shi‘ism
• Navigating Clerical Dissent
• Mir Damad (d. AH/–CE): The Cleric as Philosopher
• The Making of the World Inside and Outside Time
• Human Freedom, Certitude and the Shari’a
• Shah ‘Abbas and the Muslim-Christian Polemics of Ahmad ‘Alavi
• Lutfullah al-Maysi (d. AH/–CE) in Isfahan
• Mistrust of Shah ‘Abbas: Lutfullah’s Mosque and the Guildsmen of the Old Meydan
• Summary and Conclusions
• Safavid Mistrust, Popular Protest and the Rationalists’ Retreat
• Social Forces from Below
• Once Upon a Time, an ‘Amili
• The Clerics’ Resources
• The New Ornament in the Crown: Khalifa Sultan
• The Penniless ‘Amili Pilgrim and the Glory that Was
• New Contenders in the Vizierate Ranks
• Akhbarism: the Challenge to Interpretive Rationalism
• When Perfectly Able Arabs Fall Prey to Akhbarism
• Dissent and the Politics of Friday Prayer
• The Malaise of the Healer: Jurists on the Defensive
• The Sufis Within and the ‘Essential’ Arabic
• Conclusion
• The Rediscovery of Traditions and the Shifting Normative
• Instability and Social Disorder
• An Imperial Command on Friday Prayer
• Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, the Rationalist-Traditionist Court Cleric
• Imamhood and Eschatology in Lieu of a De-empowered State
• At a Cushion’s Distance From the Shah: Muhammad
• Al-Hurr al-‘Amili (d. AH/CE)
• On Public Reference to the Mahdi
• On Tobacco
• The Duel Over Political Custody: Jurists and Sufis
• Summary and Conclusions
• Conclusion
• Appendices
  • The ‘Amili ‘Ulama of Safavid Iran, –CE
  • Posts and Activities of the Emigré ‘Amili ‘Ulama
  • The Intellectual Production of the Emigré ‘Amili ‘Ulama
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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