{"product_id":"9781438466286","title":"Walayah in the Fatimid Isma'ili Tradition","description":"\u003ci\u003eExplores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā‘īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the \u003ci\u003eimām\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century. Alexandrin’s work is a departure from recent Western scholarship that focuses on similarities among early Islamic traditions. She argues instead that, under the guidance of the Fāṭimid Ismā‘īlī chief missionary al-Mu’ayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1078 CE), the concept of \u003ci\u003ewalāyah\u003c\/i\u003e (divine guidance) became closely associated with religio-political authority, on the one hand, and the perfection of the individual human being, on the other. By signaling and affirming how the Fāṭimid caliph-\u003ci\u003eimām\u003c\/i\u003es were the heirs of \u003ci\u003ewalāyah\u003c\/i\u003e and by proposing new definitions of the “seal of God’s friends” (\u003ci\u003ekhātim al-awliyā’ Allāh\u003c\/i\u003e), al- Mu’ayyad broadened the contexts of making esoteric knowledge public and shifted the apocalyptic frameworks of Islamic messianism.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123620954352,"sku":"9781438466286","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438466286_p0.jpg?v=1763756473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438466286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}