The Ottoman Execution of Zayn al-Dīn al-'Āmilī
2008; Brill; Volume: 48; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/157006008x364695
ISSN1570-0607
Autores Tópico(s)Islamic Thought and Society Studies
ResumoAbstract This study attempts to sort out the partial and contradictory accounts of the last years and martyrdom of the prominent Twelver Shiite jurist Zayn al-Dīn al-'Āmilī (d. 965/1558), drawing on Shiite biographical works, Zayn al-Dīn's writings and the scholarly paraphernalia attached to them, Safavid chronicles, and a recently published travelogue that includes an eye-witness account of his execution in Istanbul. It argues in particular that the influential account of Zayn al-Dīn's arrest and execution included in al-Hurr al-'Āmilī's biographical work Amal al-āmil is a forgery from the late seventeenth century and should be discarded as evidence for Zayn al-Dīn's biography.
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