Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani ( Arabic حميد الدين الكرماني, DMG Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī ; † around 1020) was an Ismaili dāʿī and scholar.
His treatise al-Maṣābīḥ fī iṯbāt al-imāma (المصابيح في اثبات الامامة) about the necessity of the imamate (إمامة/ "imāma"), an Ismaili variant of the basis of the Shiite teaching of the Imamat, was translated into English by Paul E. Walker. The work was written in the 'bold hope' of convincing Fachr al-Mulk , the Shiite vizier of the Buyids in Baghdad , to abandon the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim .
It was pointed out that his teaching was never adopted from the Fatimid daʿwa , and only the Yemeni Tayyibites replaced the earlier traditional system with it.
Other works (selection)
- Rahat al-'aql (The Rest of the Intellect), completed in 1020, his magnum opus
- Al-Aqwal al-dhahabiya
- Kitab al-riyad (Book of Gardens), exposition of the early Isma'ilite cosmology
literature
- Hamid al-Din Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah al-Kirmani. 'Master of the Age: An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate'. A Critical Edition of the Arabic text and English Translation of al-Kirmani's al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama by Paul E. Walker . 2008 ( Ismaili Texts and Translations Series 9). ISBN 1-84511-604-6 .
- Paul E. Walker: Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani: Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Hakim . 1999 ( Ismaili Heritage Series 3) ( online excerpt ; book review (PDF; 101 kB) by Shabnam Khan-Ali)
- Daniel De Smet: La Quiétude de l'intellect: Néoplatonisme et gnose ismaélienne dans l'oeuvre de Hamid ad-Din al-Kirmani . 1995
- W. Madelung: " The Imamate in the early Ismaili teaching "
- Farhad Daftary : Brief History of the Ismailis. Traditions of a Muslim Community (= culture, law and politics in Muslim societies . Volume 4 ). Ergon, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-89913-292-0 (English: A Short History of the Ismailis . Translated by Kurt Maier).
See also
Web links
- iep.utm.edu: Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (Farhad Daftary) in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (also under iis.ac.uk (PDF; 114 kB) - Institute of Ismaili Studies ( IIS ))
- kimiyagard.wordpress.com: Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani on the necessity of imamate, arg. 1.
References and footnotes
- ↑ iep.utm.edu gives 1020 as the year of death, and 1021 is also encountered.
- ↑ cf. W. Madelung: Art. "Imāma" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. III., Pp. 1163-1169.
- ^ Paul E. Walker (2007)
- ↑ On the person and cosmological teaching, see F. Daftary (2003), especially p. 104 f.
- ^ W. Madelung , "Isma'iliyya," in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., Ed. E. van Donzel, B. Lewis, and Ch. Pellat (Leiden: Brill, 1978), vol. 4, p. 204. - Cf. Markus Wachowski: Rationale Schiiten: Ismailitische Weltsichten after a postcolonial reading of Max Weber's concept of rationalism . 2012, p. 214 ( online excerpt )
| Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (alternative names of the lemma) |
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| Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani; Hamid al-Din Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah al-Kirmani; Ḥamīd al-Dīn Aḥmad b. 'Abd Allaah al-Kirmani; Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh al-Kirmānī; Hamid al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad b. 'Abdallah al-Kirmani; Aḥmad Ḥamīd ad-Dīn al-Kirmānī; Ḥamīd al-Dīn Amad ibn ʻAbd Allah Kirmānī |
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| SURNAME | Kirmani, Hamid al-Din al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirmānī, Hamīd-ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh al-; Kirmānī, Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh; Kirmānī, Ḥamīd al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn ʿAbd Allah; Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn al-Kirmānī; Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh al-Kirmānī; Kirmānī, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh al-; qḤamīd-ad-Dīn al-Kirmānī; Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh al-Kirmānī; Kirmānī, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh al; Ḥuǧǧat-al-ʿIrāqain Aḥmad Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn al-Karmānī; ʿAbd Allāh al-Kirmānī, Ḥamīd al-Dīn Aḥmad b .; Karmānī al-Kirmānī, Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn; Kirmānī, Ḥamīd al-Dīn; حميد الدين الكرماني (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ismaili dāʿī and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1020 |