Islamic Alternatives

Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Early Shiʻism and Futuwwa -- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (Paris): New Remarks on Secrecy and Concealment in Early Imāmī Shiʻism: the Case of khatm al -nubuwwa - Aspects of Twelver Shiʻi Imamology XII -- Mohsen Zakeri (Göttingen): From Futuwwa to Mystic Political Thought - The Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh and Abū Ḥafṣ Suhrawardī's Theory of Government -- Ahl-e Ḥaqq (Yāresān) -- Philip G. Kreyenbroek (Göttingen): Some Remarks on the Early History of the Ahl-e Ḥaqq -- Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht): Between Dersim and Dālahū - Reflections on Kurdish Alevism and the Ahl-e Ḥaqq Religion -- Yiannis Kanakis (Exeter): Yāresān Religious Concepts and Ritual Repertoires as Elements of Larger Net-works of Socio-Political 'Heterodoxy' - Some Thoughts on Yāresān, Shiite and Qizilbash/Bektashi Sources and Symbolism -- Cultural Anthropological Analysis -- Jürgen Wasim Frembgen (Munich): Beyond Muslim and Hindu - Sacred Spaces in the Thar Desert of Pakistan -- Alexandre Papas (Paris): Dog of God: Animality and Wildness among Dervishes -- Thierry Zarcone (Paris): Sacred Stones in Qalandariyya and Bektashism -- Khāksār -- Mehran Afshari (Tehran): Quṭb al-Dīn Ḥaydar-e Tūnī and his Connection to the Ḥaydariyya and Khāksāriyya -- Shahrokh Raei (Göttingen): Some Recent Issues and Challenges in the Khāksār Order -- Folk Sufism -- Razia Sultanova (Cambridge): Female Folk Sufism in the Central Asian Space-Time Continuum -- Index -- Plates