David Hollenberg
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Beyond the Qur'an

Early Isma'ili Ta'wil and the Secrets of the Prophets

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Ismailism, one of the three major branches of Shiism, is best known for ta’wil, an esoteric, allegorizing scriptural exegesis. Beyond the Qur’?n: Early Ismaili ta’wil and the Secrets of the Prophets is the first book-length study of this interpretive genre. Analyzing sources composed by tenth-century Ismaili missionaries in light of social-science theories of cognition and sectarianism, David Hollenberg argues that the missionaries used ta’wil to instill in acolytes a set of symbolic patterns, forms, and “logics.” This shared symbolic world bound the community together as it create...