{"product_id":"command-and-creation-daryoush-mohammad-poor-9780755602964","title":"Command and Creation: A Shi'i Cosmological Treatise: A Persian edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastani's Majlis-i maktub","description":"Among the considerable oeuvre of Muhammad al-Shahrastani (1086-1153), the prominent Persian theologian and heresiographer, the \u003ci\u003eMajlis-i maktub\u003c\/i\u003e ('The Transcribed Sermon') is his only known work in Persian. First delivered as a sermon in Khwarazm in Central Asia, this treatise invokes the theme of creation and command, providing an esoteric cosmological narrative where faith, revelation, prophecy and the spiritual authority of the Household of the Prophet are interwoven. The \u003ci\u003eMajlis-i maktub\u003c\/i\u003e further discusses themes such as the evolution of religious law (\u003ci\u003eshari'at\u003c\/i\u003e) and its culmination in the \u003ci\u003eqiyamat\u003c\/i\u003e(resurrection), the relation between free will and predestination, the interplay between the exoteric and esoteric aspects of faith, and the role and function of the Shi?i Imams in the cosmological narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis treatise is arguably the most dense expression of al-Shahrastani's thought, and it demonstrably indicates the Ismaili inclination of this Muslim scholar who has usually been regarded as a Shafi'i-Ash'ari. Daryoush Mohammad Poor's comparative study of this treatise and the corpus of Nizari Ismaili literature from the Alamut period (1090-1256) reveals the massive impact of al-Shahrastani's thought on every aspect of the doctrines of Nizari Ismailis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daryoush Mohammad Poor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 075560296X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780755602964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Daryoush Mohammad Poor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44584193458431,"sku":"9780755602964","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ba568c7-053a-4792-9573-cc5120a29325.jpg?v=1701885801","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/command-and-creation-daryoush-mohammad-poor-9780755602964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}