Jafr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Jafr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Gardiner, Noah

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062321
Doc. NO	:	ALei2718
Main Entry	:	Gardiner, Noah
Title & Author	:	Jafr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Gardiner, Noah
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,340 words)
Abstract	:	Jafr is a political-eschatological divinatory discourse originally associated with the Shīʿī Imāms that, over time, came to refer to a range of divinatory practices and millenarian discourses and became nearly synonymous with the science of letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf). 1. Jafr in early Shīʿī sources In early Shīʿī sources, a jafr is a text or collection of texts that forms an important basis of the esoteric knowledge possessed by ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661), cousin and son-in-law of Muḥammad, and the later Imāms, particularly regarding
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2718.pdf