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The Way of Nobility: Knowledge of the Imam

Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad

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The Way of Nobility: Knowledge of the Imam (Minhāj al-karāma fī maʿrifat al-imāma) is one of the most celebrated works in favour of the Shīʿī belief in the Imāma. Apparently authored for the Mongol ruler Öljeitü Khān, this work by al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī presents a concise but crucial summary of key arguments in favour of the Imamate of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and his descendants. The work also contains detailed evidence from Sunnī historical and ḥadīth sources to establish the lack of qualifications for leadership of the Muslim community by those persons whom the majority of Muslims followed, namely, the first three so-called ‘rightly guided caliphs’ (al-khulafāʾ al-rāshidūn).

  • Epigraph

  • Preface

  • Introduction

  • I. Delineating the Various Positions Taken on This Question

  • II. Why the Imāmī Position Must Be Followed

  • III. Proofs Establishing the Imāma of the Commander of the Faithful, ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, After the Messenger of Allah

    • The First Way: Rational Proofs

    • The Second Way: Qurʾānic Evidence

    • The Third Way: Evidence from the Sunna Related from the Prophet

    • The Fourth Way: Evidence for His Imāma Based on His States

  • IV. On the Imāma of the Remaining Twelve Imams

  • V. Those Who Were Put Forward Do Not Qualify as Imams

  • VI. Invalidating Their Proofs for the Imāma of Abū Bakr

  • Bibliography

  • Index of Names

  • Index of Places

  • Index of Book Titles

  • Index of Battles and Treaties

Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad is currently the Prophet Muhammad University Professor of Shīʿa Islam Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. He is the author of Fatwās of Condemnation: Islam and the Limits of Dissent (Kuala Lumpur: 2006) and has prepared a critical edition of Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam (Cairo: 2015).

DOI https://doi.org/10.70441/9781838499662
Publisher AMI Press (31 May 2023)
Language English
Paperback 350 pages
ISBN-10 1838499660
ISBN-13 978-1838499662
Dimensions 15.6 x 2.69 x 23.39 cm

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