The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800-1989) Reading Ibn ʿArabī's Theory of Wilāya in the Shīʿa World /

• Main Author: Chamankhah, Leila (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History
• Subjects: Islam-Doctrines.; Indo-Iranian languages.; Middle East-History.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Middle Eastern literature.; Middle East-Politics and government.; Islamic Theology.; Indo-Iranian Languages.; History of the Middle East.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Middle Eastern Literature.; Middle Eastern Politics.
• Physical Description: XIII, 288 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030226923
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22692-3

This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the conceptualizations of wilāya through the examination and interpretation of key texts. She focuses on the influence of ibn ʿArabī's mysticism, with regard to the conception of wilāya, on his Shīʿa successors and expositors in later centuries. She also discusses the development and transformation of the conception of wilāya over two hundred years, from the esoteric school of Shaykhīsm to the politicization of wilāya in the theory of wilāyat al-faqīh.