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The twelfth-century Iranian mystic ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī (d. 1131) wrote vividly of his explorations of death as a state of consciousness which he experienced while alive. This state and his visions of Doomsday and the innumerable non-corporeal worlds that lie past the world of matter confront him with paradoxical realities that upset the notional understanding of faith. The present book concerns itself with a discussion on the subject of death as it is viewed by one of the defining mystic scholars of medieval Iran. Based on medieval manuscripts and primary sources in classical Persian and Arabic, this book explores the significance of this important Iranian mystic and his insights on the nature of reality in light of death.

Death --- Mysticism --- Islamic philosophy. --- Mort --- Mysticisme --- Philosophie islamique --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Aspect religieux --- Islam --- 'Ayn al-Qudah al-Hamadhani, 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad, --- ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Hamadhānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- Islamic philosophy --- Arabic philosophy --- Muslim philosophy --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Philosophy, Arab --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Philosophy --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Miyānajī, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAyn al-Quḍāh, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Hamadhānī, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAyn al-Quz̤āt, --- Abū al-Maʻālī ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAyn al-Quḍāh, --- Abuʼl-Maʻālī ʻAin al-Quḍāt ʻAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad al-Miyānaǧī, --- ʻAin al-Quḍāt al-Hamad̲ānī, --- ʻAin al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī, --- ʻAinulquz̤āt Hamadānī, --- ʼAyn al-Qozat Hamadani, --- ʻAyn al-Quḍāh, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- ʻAyn al-Quḍāh, Abū al-Maʻālī ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- ʻAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- ʻAyn al-Quz̤āt, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- ʻAyn al-Quz̤āt Hamadānī, --- Eyn-ol Ghozat-e Hamadani, --- Hamad̲ānī, --- Hamadānī, ʻAinulquz̤āt, --- Hamadani, ʼAyn al-Qozat, --- Hamadānī, ʻAyn al-Quz̤āt, --- Hamadhānī, ʻAin al-Quḍāt, --- Miyānaǧī, Abuʼl-Maʻālī ʻAin al-Quḍāt ʻAbdallāh ibn Muḥammad, --- Miyānajī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- Aynülkudât el-Hemedânî, --- Hemedânî, Aynülkudât, --- عبد الله بن محمد عين القضات الهمذانى، --- عين القضاة الهمذاني، عبد الله بن محمد --- عين القضاة الهمذاني، عبد الله بن محمد، --- عين القضات الهمداني، عبد الله بن محمد --- عين القضات همدانى --- عين القضاه الهمدانى، عبد الله بن محمد --- عين القضاه الهمذاني، عبد الله بن محمد --- عين القضاه همدانى، عبدالله بن محمد --- ʻAyn al-Quz̤āt-i Hamadānī, --- Death (Islam) --- Aynulkudât-ı Hemedânî,

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Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, including over 300 Arabic texts authored by the jihad's leaders: Usman dan Fodio, his brother Abdullahi and his son, Muhammad Bello (known collectively as the Fodiawa). Sokoto's early years are one of the most documented periods of pre-colonial African history, yet current narratives pay little attention to the formative role these texts played in the creation of Sokoto, and the complex scholarly world from which they originated. Far from being unified around a single concept of Muslim statecraft, this book demonstrates how divided the Fodiawa were about what Sokoto could and should be, and the various discursive strategies they used to enrol local societies into their vision. Based on a close analysis of the sources (some appearing in English translation for the first time) and an effort to date their intellectual production, the book restores agency to Sokoto's leaders as individuals with different goals, characters and methods. More generally, it shows how revolutionary religious movements gain legitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy they claim changes as they move from rebels to rulers.

Islamic leadership --- Islamic leadership. --- History --- Sources. --- Usuman dan Fodio, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- Bello, Muḥammad, --- 1800-1899 --- Sokoto State (Nigeria) --- Nigeria --- Muslim leadership --- Leadership --- Dan Fodio, Usuman, --- D̳anfodio, Usman, --- Danfodiyo, Uthman, --- Fodio, Usman ibn, --- Fodio, Usuman dan, --- Fodio, Uthman ibn, --- Foduye, Usman B., --- Foduy̳e, Usuman b̳ii, --- Fûdî, Osman b., --- Fuduy̳e, Uthman dan, --- Ibn Fodio, Uthman, --- Ibn Fūdī, ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad, --- Osman b. Fûdî, --- Othman dan Fodio, --- Usman B. Foduye, --- Usman dan Fodio, --- Usman ibn Fodio, --- Usmanu Dan Fodiye, --- Usmanu Dan Fodiyo, --- Usuman b̳ii Foduy̳e, --- Usumanu Dan Fodiyo, --- Uthman b. Fodio, --- Uthman b. Foduye, --- ʻUthmān bin Fūdī, --- ʻUthmān dan Fodio, --- ʻUthmān dān Fūdiyū, --- Uthman dan Fuduy̳e, --- Uthman Danfodiyo, --- Uthman ibn Fodio, --- ʻUthmān ibn Fūdī, --- ʻUt̲mān b. Fūdī, --- Ball, Muḥammad, --- Ballo, Muhammad, --- Bello, Mohammed, --- Belo, Mohammed, --- Bill, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad Bīlū ibn ʼUthmān Fūdī, --- ʻAbd Allah b. Foduye, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fūdī, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fūdyū, --- Abdullahi b. Fodio, --- Abdullahi b. Fodiyo, --- Abdullahi bin Fodio, --- Abdullahi dan Foduye, --- Abdullahi ibn Fudi, --- Abdullahi ibn Fudios, --- Bin Fodio, Abdullahi, --- Dan-Fodio, ʻAbdullāhi, --- Dan Foduye, Abdullahi --- Fodio, Abdullahi bin, --- Foduye, ʻAbd Allah b., --- Foduye, Abdullahi B., --- Ibn Fūdī, ʻAbd Allāh, --- Ibn Fudi, Abdullahi, --- Ibn Fudios, Abdullahi, --- Ibn Fūdyū, ʻAbd Allāh, --- Nayjīrī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fūdī, --- بلو، محمد --- بلو، محمد، --- عبد الله بن محمد --- عبد الله بن محمد، --- عثمان بن فودي --- عثمان بن فودي، --- Sokoto, Nigeria (State) --- Sokoto (Nigeria : State) --- North-Western State (Nigeria) --- Kebbi State (Nigeria) --- Zamfara State (Nigeria) --- African history. --- Muslim empires. --- Sokoto. --- West Africa. --- cultural history. --- legitimacy. --- religious movements.