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2024

The Guide, Pivot of Creation: The Sources of Shi’i Gnosis

The aim of the article is to explore the relationship between cosmo-anthropogony and Imamology in Shi’ism through its earliest sources in the corpus of pre-Buyid hadiths. It shows that the figure of the Divine Guide is the axis around which creation revolves. Early Shi’ism thus seems to inherit certain major doctrines from the spiritual and intellectual traditions of Late Antiquity.

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L’objectif de l’article est d’explorer la relation entre la cosmo-anthropogonie et l’imamologie du chiisme à travers ses sources les plus anciennes dans le corpus de hadiths pré-bouyides. Il montre que la figure du Guide Divin est l’axe autour duquel la création gravite. Le chiisme primitif semble donc hériter de certaines grandes doctrines des traditions spirituelles et intellectuelles de l’Antiquité tardive.

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هدف المقالة هو استكشاف العلاقة بين الكوزموأنثروبوجونية والإمامية في المذهب الشيعي من خلال أقدم مصادرها في مجموعة الأحاديث قبل البويهيين. وهي تظهر أن شخصية المرشد الإلهي هي المحور الذي تدور حوله الخليقة. لذلك يبدو أن التشيع الأصيل يرث بعض العقائد الكبرى للتقاليد الروحية والفكرية في العصور القديمة المتأخرة.

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