Encyclopaedia Islamica
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Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
Edited by: Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung
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.
Subscriptions: see Brill.com
Ecstasy
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Ecstasy (
wajd), an overwhelming and heightened state of awareness, usually of joyful intoxication and wonderment, specifically associated with an experience of mystical self-transcendence, or a whole range of emotive responses to an encounter with the divine. Sometimes this experience leads to ecstatic utterances which are shocking or even heretical to the ordinary mind (see below: Ecstatic Speech).The Definitions of EcstasyThe English word ‘ecstasy’ derives from the Greek
ekstasis (
εκστασις), ‘standing outside oneself’ or ‘displacement beyond the normal state o…
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Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
Editorial Board
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Editor-in-Chief of the Original Persian EditionKazem Musavi Bojnurdi
English Edition
Editors-in-ChiefWilferd Madelung Farhad Daftary
Managing EditorsReza Shah-Kazemi Janis Esots
Advisory Committee (Tehran)Ahmad Pakatchi Sadeq Sajjadi
Co-ordinating EditorsShahram Khodaverdian Wendy Robinson
Editorial TeamNajam Abbas Marjan Afsharian Rahim Gholami Russell Harris Stephen Hirtenstein Jane Lewisohn Isabel Miller Mehran Nouri Fiona Stubbings Muhammad Isa Waley Roxane Zand
Consulting EditorsMohammad A. Amir-Moezzi S. Jalal Badakhchani Yahia Baiza Stephen Burge Herm…
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Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-04-15