This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the third of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
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Adab
ʿ岹
Adam in Islam
Adhān and iqāma
Ā
ʿAdī b. Ḥātim
Al-Adīb al-Naṭanzī
Adīb Ṣābir Tirmidhī
-ʿĀḍi
ʿĀ徱-ī
Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī
Afḍal al-Dīn Kirmānī
Al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī
Afḍal Ḥusaynī
Al-Afḍal Kutayfāt
Afghan
Afghanistan
ڱī
ڰ
ڰ (family)
ڲ
ڲids
ڲī
Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. (Āqā Khān)
Āghā Muḥammad Khān Qājār
Āghāj Arī
Al-Aghānī, Kitāb
AghlabidsMuslim dynasty that ruled in North Africa (800–909), succeeded by the Fatimids.
ḥdٳ
Ahl al-Kitāb
Ahl-i Ḥaqq
ḥm
ḥm al-ʿAlawī
ḥm al-Badawī
ḥm al-Nāṣir
ḥm al-Rifāʿī
ḥm al-Suhrawardī
ḥm b. ʿAbd al-Mastūr
ḥm b. Abī Duʾād al-Ibādī
ḥm b. al-Ṭayyib al-Sarakhsī
ḥm b. Ayyūb
ḥm b. Ḥanbal
ḥm b. ʿĪsā
ḥm b. ʿĪsā b. Zayd
ḥm b. Khiḍrawayh (Khiḍrūya) al-Balkhī
ḥm b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā
ḥm b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar
ḥm Jām
ḥm Kāsānī
ḥm Kātib
ḥm Mashhadī
ḥm Mujtahid
ḥm Mūsā
ḥm Nayrīzī
ḥm Rasmī
ḥm Shāh Durrānī
ḥm Shāh Qājār
ḥm Shāmlū
ḥm Sirhindī
ḥm Yasawī
Al-Aḥnaf b. Qays
Aḥrār, Khwājah Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿUbayd
-ḥsʾī
ḥw
Al-Ahwāzī, Abū al-Ḥasan
ʿĀʾ
Akbar
-峾
Akhbār al-Dawla al-ʿAbbāsiyya
Al-Akhbārī, Mīrzā Muḥammad
ⲹ
al-Akhfash
ī
ī Awrān
Āl Aʿyan
ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār Bukhārī
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad
ū
ẓ
ʿAlī b. ʿAbd b. al-ʿAbbās
ʿAlī b. Abī Ḥamza al-Baṭāʾinī
ʿAlī b. Abī ṬālibCousin of the Prophet Muhammad and his son-in-law by marriage to his daughter Fatima; the first Shi‘i Imam and fourth caliph (d. 661).
ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, Abū al-Ḥasan
ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar
ʿAlī b. Mahziyār
ʿAlī b. Maymūn
ʿAlī Riḍā ʿAbbāsī
ʿĀlī-Qāpū Palace
wirdī Khān
-Āūī
ī
-ʿ
-Āī
Al-Amīn, Muḥsin
Āmina bint Wahb
īī
ī(pl. umarāʾ) Arabic lit. a prince, a commander, or a leader. In early Muslim history, the word amīr referred to an army commander. During the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, the… -Ḥāj
ī al-Muʾminīn
Al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām
ī Ḥusaynī
ī Kabīr
The ī Kiyāʾids of Gīlān
ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr b. al-Layth
ʿAmr b. Ḥamiq al-Khuzāʿī
al-Amr bi al-maʿrūf wa al-nahy ʿan al-munkar
Anas b. Mālik
Դ
ܻ
ʿԲ
Ա粹ī
-ṭākī
Էɲī
Āq Shams al-Dīn
Āqā Buzurg Tihrānī
ʿAqīl b. Abī Ṭālib
Ā-ūūԱū
Arabic
ʿī
Ardistān, congregational mosque
Arg
Arghūn Khān
Arg-i ʿAlī Shāh
ʿĀrif Qazwīnī
Armenia
Asadī Ṭūsī
Āṣaf b. Barakhyā
al-Aṣbagh b. Nubāta
-ʿī
Ashʿarīs of Qumm
Ashʿarīs, the dissemination of Ashʿarī theology
al-Ashʿath b. Qays al-Kindī
Ashraf Jahāngīr
Ashraf-ughlī (Eşrefoğlu)
ʿĀūʾAn event which is commemorated by many Shi‘a Muslims as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Imam al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, which took…
ṣl
ṣlī and Karam
Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays
Al-Asmāʾ wa al-aḥkām
-ṣmʿī
Al-Asmar
Assassins
ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī
ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī
Awliyā Chalabī
ɳ
-ɳʿī
Āyāt al-aḥkām
Āyat
ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī
-ʿī
ū
Al-Azhar
Aẓhar Tabrīzī
Aẓhar, Imāmzādah
-ī
Al-ʿAzīz bi’llāh
Bā ʿAlawī
al- al-Ḥādīʿashar
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– Robert Gleave, Journal of the American Oriental Society
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– Mousa al-Reza Wahdati, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies
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– Yashab Tur, Islamic Sciences
Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies, consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver ‘iSee Shi‘a., Zaydism and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with 鶹.