Beschreibung

CONTRIBUTORS

LISTE OF ABREVIATIONS

TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: BELIEFS

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

MOHAMMAD ALİ AMIR-MOEZZI, Considérations sur l'expression ŞDin ŞAli": Aux origines de la foi shiite

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MEIR M. BAL-ASHER and ARYEH KOFSKY, The Nusayri doctrine of ŞAli's divinity and the Nusayri trinity according to an unpublished treatise from the 7th/13th century

E. RUHİ FI?LALI, ŞAli in the Sunni historical and theological tradition

ALEXANDER FODOR, Types of Shi`ite amulets from Iraq

PART TWO: POPULAR LITERATURE AND ICONOGRAPHY

İSMET ÇETİN, ŞAli in Turkish folk literature

SERPİL BA?CI, From texts to pictures: ŞAli 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. U?UR DERMAN, ŞAli in Ottoman calligraphy

GENERAL INDEX