From History The Theology Ali In Islamic Beliefs

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INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: BELIEFS

ABDULAZİZ SACHEDINA, The Wali of God and the Wasi of the Prophet: ?Ali b. Abi Talib in Twelver Shi'ite belief

MOHAMMAD ALİ AMIR-MOEZZI, Considérations sur l'expression ?Din ?Ali": Aux origines de la foi shiite

FARHAD DAFTARY, ?Ali in classical Ismaili theology

IRÈNE MÉLIKOFF, La divinisation d'Ali chez les Bektachis Alevis

MEIR M. BAL-ASHER and ARYEH KOFSKY, The Nusayri doctrine of ?Ali's divinity and the Nusayri trinity according to an unpublished treatise from the 7th/13th century

E. RUHİ FIĞLALI, ?Ali in the Sunni historical and theological tradition

ALEXANDER FODOR, Types of Shi'ite amulets from Iraq

PART TWO: POPULAR LITERATURE AND ICONOGRAPHY

İSMET ÇETİN, ?Ali in Turkish folk literature

SERPİL BAĞCI, From texts to pictures: ?Ali in manuscript painting

FREDERICK DE JONG, The iconography of Bektashiism: A survey of themes and symbolism in clerical costume, liturgical objects and pictorial art

M. UĞUR DERMAN, ?Ali in Ottoman calligraphy

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