- 141 pages
- English
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Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis
About this book
Fazlallah Astarabadi was a 14th-century Islamic religious leader who believed that the world was about to come to an end. This book is the first comprehensive study of Astarabadi's life and thought and also offer a history of his movement. It emphasizes the diversity of medieval Islam by describing an apocalyptic movement founded on the idea that the cosmos contains embedded secrets that become manifest through extraordinary human beings.
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Yes, you can access Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis by Shahzad Bashir in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Islamic Theology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
Islamic TheologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Author biography
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 EARLY LIFE
- Birth and Childhood
- Religious Wandering
- Dreams in Khwarazm
- Sabzavar
- The Rise to Social Prominence
- 2 ENLIGHTENMENT
- Marriage
- Dream Interpretation in Tabriz
- Enlightenment
- Accepting the Mission
- Political Ambitions
- 3 DEATH
- Timur-i Lang
- Arrest
- Last Will and Testament
- Execution
- 4 COSMOS AND HUMANITY
- The Macrocosm
- The Microcosm
- Cosmic Time
- 5 APOCALYPSE, LANGUAGE, AND SALVATION
- Religious Linguistics
- The Science of Letters
- From Arabic to Persian
- Operations on Letters
- Letters and Physical Reality
- Abbreviations and New Characters
- The Wages of Apocalypticism
- 6 SHRINE AND SUCCESSORS
- The Shrine
- A Split Community
- The Second Coming
- Major Disciples
- Attack on Mirza Shahrukh (1427)
- Uprisings in Isfahan and Tabriz
- Attempt to Convert the Ottoman Mehmet the Conqueror
- Summary
- 7 LEGACY
- Iran
- India
- The Ottoman Empire
- Modern Interpretations
- Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book
- APPENDIX: Hurufi Literature
- Further Reading
- Index