Fortresses of the intellect : Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary / / edited by Omar Alí-de-Unzaga

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467336803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : I B Tauris & Co Ltd; London : , : in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-7556-1124-1; 1-78672-466-9; 1-78673-466-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 600 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 297.071
• Soggetti: Islam - Study and teaching; Islamic civilization - Study and teaching; Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-571) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : a biographical sketch / Omar Alí de Unzaga -- Bibliography of the works of Farhad Daftary -- Persian, the other sacred language of Islam : some brief notes / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Sunni claims to Imam Ja'far al-Ṣādiq / Hamid Algar -- The Kitāb al-rusūm wa'l-izdiwāj wa'l-tartīb attributed to 'Abdān (d. 289/899) : edition of the Arabic text and translation / Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker -- Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa / Patricia Crone -- The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' : between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī / Abbas Hamdani -- Ibda', divine imperative and prophecy in the Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā / Carmela Baffioni -- Some aspects of the external relations of the Qarāmiṭa in Baḥrayn / István Hajnal -- A distinguished Slav eunuch of the early Fatimid period : al Ustādh Jawdhar / Hamid Haji -- Al-Qāḍī al-Nu'mān and his refutation of Ibn Qutayba / Ismail K. Poonawala -- The Risāla al-Mudhhiba attributed to al-Qāḍī al-Nu'mān : important evidence for the adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the time of al-Mu'izz? / Daniel De Smet -- Cosmos into verse : two examples of Islamic philosophical poetry in Persian / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Early evidence for the reception of Nāṣir-i Khusraw's ; poetry in Sufism : 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's letter on the Ra'līmīs / Hermann Landolt -- A dream come true : empowerment through dreams reflecting Fatimid-Sulayhid relations / Delia Cortese -- From the "Moses of reason" to the "Khiḍr of the Resurrection" : the oxymoronic transcendent in Shahrastānī's Majlis-i maktūb-- dar Khwārazm / Leonard Lewisohn -- Poems of the Resurrection : Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib and his Dīwān-i Qā'imiyyāt / S. Jalal Badakhchani -- Further notes on the Turkish names in Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqī's Tārīkh-i Mas'ūdī / C. Edmund Bosworth -- A book list from a seventh/thirteenth-century manuscript found in Bāmyān / Iraj Afshar -- What's in a name? : Tughtegin, "the Minister of the Antichrist"? / Carole Hillenbrand -- Safavids and "subalterns" : the reclaiming of voices / Andrew J. Newman -- Compromise and conciliation in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute : Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī's assessment of 'Abd Allāh al-Samāhījī's Munyat al-Mumārisīn / Robert Gleave.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, the government of the Islamic Republic initiated a stringent anti-drug campaign that included fining addicts, imprisonment, physical punishment and even the death penalty. Despite these measures, drug use was, and is still, commonplace. Based on her most recent fieldwork, Janne Bjerre Christensen explores the mounting problems of drug use in Iran, how treatment became legalized in 1998, how local NGOs offer methadone treatment in Tehran and face continuous political challenges in doing so, and how drug use is critically discussed in Iranian media and cinema. Drugs, Deviancy and Democracy in Iran is thus a unique account of Iran's recent social and political history, drawing important conclusions about the complexity of state power, and the growing impact of civil society, vital for all those interested in Iran's history, politics and society."--Bloomsbury publishing.