Onomastic and Terminological Index

175

‘Umar, 186

succession of, 187

‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, 172

‘Uthman, 172, 186

Abd al-Wahhab, 112

Abdullah ibn Saba, 171

Abrahamic religions, 96

Abū Bakr, 172, 185, 186, 189

a pillar of Islam, 193

assumption of Caliphate, 196

broke the balance between the exoteric and the esoteric, 228

collusion of companions, 188

could not impede divine authority, 158

destroys esoteric foundation of the Caliphate, 191

succession of, 187

Abū Sufyan, 141

testifies against himself, 173

activist

tradition, 107

Advaita Vedanta, 88

Adventists, 79

Ahl al-Haqq, 168

Ahmadi, Ahmad, 125

Ahmadiyyah, 73

Ahsa’i, Shaykh Ahmad al-, 168, 169

al-arkan, 214

al-bab, 193

al-haqiqat al-muhammadiyyah, 199

al-hidayah al-batiniyyah, 229

al-hujjah, 214

al-Kaysaniyya, 164

al-muntazar, 214

al-nur al-muhammadi, 199

al-qa’im, 214

al-qutb, 214

ansar, 196

ansar, 184

Antisthenes, 124

Aristotle, 88

arkan al-islam, 92

Ashari, Abū al-Hasan ‘Ali al-, 95

Asín Palacios, Miguel, 147

Ataturk, Mustafa Kamel, 109

ayat, 158

Ayatullahs, 102

Baha‘i, 201

Bajwan, 168

batin, 115

Bausani, Alessandro, 143

bay‘ah, 186

Bektashis, 168

Berque, Jacques, 147

bid‘ah, 107

Buddhism, 88, 138

Buddhists, 87

Burckhardt, Titus, 118, 125

Caliphate

the pinnacle of Arabism, 195

Çepnis, 168

Chittick, William C., 131

Christianity, 71, 76, 96

various branches, 76

Clegg, Claude Andrew, 93

consensus

does not determine orthodoxy, 83, 146

Corbin

Henry, 61

Corbin, Henry, 84, 125, 199,

215

Cortés, Julio, 90

Council of Nice, 148

cycle of initiation, 183, 224

cycle of prophethood, 183, 224

Cynics, 124

da‘aim al-Islam, 94

da’irat al-nubuwwah, 183, 199, 224

da’irat al-wilayah, 102, 183, 224

Deobandi, 120

Descartes, 136

din, 92

divide and conquer

Orientalist approach, 83

divine unity

basis of all Islamic orthodoxy, 87

Donatism, 141

Donatus, 141

Enoch, 89

Epicurus, 124

Farrakhan, Louis, 93

Fatimah, 111

scroll of, 204

Shadili, Shayl al-, 92

Shadiliyyah, 92

Shah of Iran, 141

shahadah, 89

profession of faith, 83

Shakir, M.H., 90

Shaltūt, Shaykh Salim, 104

shar‘iah

no Sūfism without, 124

shari‘ah

determines orthodoxy, 84

establishes orthodoxy, 102

Shaykhis, 168

Shi‘ah

definition, 179

of ‘Ali among the Companions, 198

Shi‘ah of Ahl al-Bayt, 179

Shi‘ah of Ali, 179

shi‘at Mu‘awwiyah, 74

Shi‘ism, 104

attempts to divide, 161

central role of, 218

entirely orthodox expression of Islam, 193

esoteric dimension of the Qur’anic revelation, 215

hermeneutic tradition, 108

historically inevitable, 168

minority status, 72

spirituality, 74

the Islam of ‘Ali and the ahl al-bayt, 167

viewed as heretical by Orientalists, 142

Western criticism of, 76

Shi‘ite

etymology, 181

Gnosticism, 111

revolts, 174

Shi‘ite Islam

an integral part of the Islamic revelation, 76

as a balancing totality, 101

as orthodox as Sunni Islam, 121

as restoration, 167

divinely-ordained, 159

Islam-Original, 110

orthodox nature of, 106

sect, 71

springs from a metaphysical reality, 167

Shi‘ites

in the words of the Prophet, 180

orthodoxy of, 72

persecution of, 172

shirk, 89

shūra, 187

shurah, 186

rejected by Shi‘ites, 207

Sistani, Ayatullah, 98

Soroush, ‘Abd al-Karim, 112

Sources of Emulation, 103

specialists of Islam

spreading disinformation, 147

spiritual bond

between the Prophet and ‘Ali, 200

spiritual inheritance, 111

Sūfi Muslims, 86

Sūfis

viewed as heretics by Orientalists, 142

Sūfism

entirely orthodox expression of Islam, 193

Islamicity of, 217

Shi‘ite origins of, 101

Sūfism, 95

Suhrawardi, 122, 149, 150

Sulayman ibn Surad, 178

Sultan Selim I, 149

sunnah

establishes orthodoxy, 102

Sunni

schools of jurisprudence, 78

Sunnism, 105

ta‘alim, 109

ta’wil, 115

Tabataba‘i, Ayatullah, 87, 125

tafsir, 115

tahrif, 156

tahrif, 90

tajalliyat, 158

takfir, 141

Takhtajis, 168

Talha, 186

Talhah, 74

Taoism, 88, 138, 214

taqlid, 106, 155

tasawwuf, 84, 215

tawassul, 95

tawhid

central unifying concept of Islam, 78

tawwabūn, 175

terrorism

condemned in Islam, 106

tradition versus religion, 133

Turkey, 109

Twelfth Imam, 107, 166

Twelve Imams, 104

embody the Muhammadan Reality, 167

luminous epiphanies of the Muhammadan Light, 199

Ummayads, 184

Universal Monarch, 214

usūl al-din, 94

Uways al-Qarni, 149

Vâlsan, Michel, 118

Veda, 88

Vedanta, 119

Vernet, Juan, 90

Wahhabi

refutation of schools of jurisprudence, 77

Wahhabi ideology

spread of, 114

Wahhabism, 112, 114

a new form of Islam, 120

Waqifites, 166

wilayah, 94, 199, 229

doctrinal complement to nubuwwah, 219

esoteric aspects, 167

meaning of, 209

wilayah fatimiyyah, 111

wilayat al-faqih, 103

Xenophanes, 88

Yahya, Harūn, 139

Yazid, 141, 173, 192

zahir, 115

zanadiqah, 171

Zayd ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn, 165

Zayd ibn al-Arqam, 186

Zaydis, 165

Zaydiyyah, 163

Zoroastrians, 87

Zubyr, 74, 186

zuhhad, 216