Marriage, Birth, and Bātinī Ta'wīl
A Study of Nusayrī Initiation Based on the Kitāb al-Hāwī fī 'ilm al-fatāwī of Abū Sa'īd Maymūn al-Tabarānī
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16645138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | BELLA TENDLER KRIEGER (1Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 53-75 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arabica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0570-5398 • E-ISSN: 1570-0585 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157005811x550291 |
| OpenAlex | W1970232081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This paper explores the description of Nusayrī initiation found in the recently published Kitāb al-Hāwī fī ‘ilm al-fatāwī of the Vth/XIth century Nusayrī scholar al-Tabarānī. Like other so called ġulāt sects, the Nusayrīs believed that religious knowledge must be hidden from the masses and should only be revealed to the elite after proper initiation. Al-Tabarānī's work gives new insight into this process, showing how the laws of Nusayrī initiation were systematically modeled on Islamic marital laws. Al-Tabarānī's description of initiation is a perfect example of the type of esoteric exegesis characteristic of the bātinī sects active in early Islamic times and reveals the extent to which the Nusayrīs made use of the Qur’ān and Hadīth. Rather than discarding Islamic precepts, as they have often been accused of doing, the early Nusayrīs paid great attention to the laws of Islam, extracting inner meanings from the text of the Qur’ān in order to create their own legal system that was at the same time Islamic and distinctly sectarian
Economics · Elite · Exegesis · Islam · Order (exchange · Political science · Theology · Families in Therapy and Culture · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |