Episode 222: The Struggle for Esoteric Authority in Early Islām: The Shī‘a and the Ghulāt

Works Cited in this Episode:

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Muḥammad the ‘seal of the prophets’: Q 33:40.

Secondary:

Sean W. Anthony. The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba’ and the Origins of Shī‘ism, volume 91 of Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts. Brill, Leiden/Boston, MA, 2012. We quote p. 313 on the historical Ibn Saba’ behind the legends, and p. 145 on the doctrines of rajʿa and ilāhīya.

Heinz Halm. Die islamische Gnosis: Die extreme Schia und die ‘Alawiten. Artemic Verlag, Zürich/München, 1982.

Marshall Hodgson. How Did the Early Shî’a become Sectarian? Journal of the American Oriental Society, 75(1):1–13, January 1955.

Marshall Hodgson. Bayān b. Sam‘ān al-Tamīmī. In Encyclopædia of Islam 2, volume 1, pages 1116–17. Brill, Leiden, 1986.

Hans Jonas. The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity. Beacon, Boston, 2001; see e.g. p. 44.

Wilferd Madelung. Al-mughiriyya. In Encyclopædia of Islam 2, pages 347–8. Brill, Leiden/New York, NY, 1993.

Ernest Renan. Mahomet et les origines de l’Islamisme. Revue des deux mondes, 12:1023–60, 1851, p. 1025.

William F. Tucker. Mahdis and Millennarians: Shī‘ite Extremists in early Muslim Iraq. The University Press, Cambridge, 2008; we quote p. 49.

Steve Wasserstrom. The Moving Finger Writes: Mughīra B. Said’s Islamic Gnosis and the Myths of its Rejection. History of Religions, 25(1):1–29, Aug. 1985; we quote pp. 1–2.

Themes

Demiurgy, Divine Double, Druze, Esoteric Hermeneutics, Ghulāt, Gnosticism, Islamic Esotericism, Kaisaniyya, Metempsychosis, Shi‘ī Esotericism

Episode 222: The Struggle for Esoteric Authority in Early Islām: The Shī‘a and the Ghulāt

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