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Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
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Encyclopaedia Islamica Online is based on the abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. A unique feature of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Online lies in the attention given to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, Encyclopaedia Islamica Online offers the Western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilization, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
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Encyclopaedia Islamica Online is based on the abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. A unique feature of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Online lies in the attention given to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, Encyclopaedia Islamica Online offers the Western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilization, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
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Natanaʾel al-Fayyūmī
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Fayyūmī,
Natanaʾel, a Jewish theologian of the Fāṭimid period who was heavily influenced by Ismaili cosmology. Fayyūmī was also the author of
Bustān al-ʿuqūl, a 12th-century treatise written in Judeo-Arabic (i.e. Arabic written in Hebrew characters with an admixture of Hebrew words and phrases), and his name appears in the colophon of the unicum manuscript of this work (
ʿanā bi taʾlīfhā Rav Natanaʾīl Bīrav
Fayyūmī). Qāfiḥ points out that his
nisba, Fayyūmī and not al-Fayyūmī, is that of his family and does not indicate an origin in the town of Fayyūm in Egypt (Qāfiḥ, 11).Al-Fayyūmī live…
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Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2022-10-14