Modern Shia Islamic and Jewish Political Theosophy
An Elective Affinity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3301706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ezra Tzfadya (0009-0003-9190-5023, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14020176 |
| OpenAlex | W4318476885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
The present study will focus on core parallels and nodes of theopolitical exchange between the two most politically and theologically consequential jurist "theosophers" of the twentieth century, the Religious Zionist founding father, the Jewish Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook (1865-1935), and the Shia Islamic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900-1989). Unquestioned masters of the tradition of both medieval philosophy and mysticism, as well as the theosophies of the early-modern and modern eras, both Kook and Khomeini attempted to embed the rhetoric of theosophy within revolutionary notions of both clerical religious authority and the necessity of their respective nomoi to assume political form. The study will also correlate contemporary Shia reformist theosophies undergirded with anti-theocratic exoteric postures with pre-WW2 German-Jewish "existence philosophies" as represented by Franz Rosenzweig, noting a common appreciation for what the study will term "theopolitical risk". It argues that the retrieval of medieval Judeo-Islamic political philosophy for the successful negotiation of reason and revelation in modernity against both theocratic juridical extremism and the iron cages of positivistic-realist secularism must be rethought in light of the theopolitics coursing through Iran and Israel, two states at the geographic periphery though fully within the horizons of the Modern West
Epistemology · Islam · Jewish thought · Judaism · Modernity · Mysticism · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Secularism · Secularization · Sociology · Theocracy · Theology · Theosophy · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Religious studies
Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran
Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy
Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi'ism
Hasidism Incarnate
Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity
Persecution and the Art of Writing
The Jew, the Arab
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
"Mysticism" in Iran
Shī'ī Islam
Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran
Sources of Franz Rosenzweig's Critique of Islam in Der Stern der Erlösung
Living Law
Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity
A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
Between Mysticism and Philosophy
Between Muslim and Jew
Outside of the Law
From Hegelianism to a Revolutionary Understanding of Judaism
Interpretations at War
Dialogue as a Means of Religious Co-Production
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |