{"product_id":"ziyarat-ashura-between-taqiyya-and-tabarri-a-study-on-manuscript-transmission","title":"Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ Between Taqiyya and Tabarrī: A Study on Manuscript Transmission","description":"\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003e“O God, I seek nearness to You on this day, in this position of mine, and throughout the days of my life, through disassociation from them and cursing them, and through loyalty to Your Prophet and the family of Your Prophet.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e\n\u003cb data-ogsc=\"\"\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eZiyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the most widely recited Shīʿī\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eziyāra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto Imam al-Ḥusayn (a.s.), but its final passages—the disavowal of the oppressors and the hundred curses—have long been contested. The oldest extant manuscript of Shaykh al-Ṭūsī's (d. 460\/1067)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eMiṣbāḥ al-mutahajjid\u003c\/i\u003e, transcribed by al-Naqqāsh al-Rāzī in 502\/1108, omits them, and a small group of early copies follows suit. Were these passages a later interpolation, or were they removed?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003eDrawing on a systematic examination of numerous manuscripts, historical sources, and related evidence, this study argues that the final passages are integral to the original text, and that they were obscured for centuries by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003etaqiyya\u003c\/i\u003e—the principled discretion exercised by Shīʿī scribes and scholars under hostile political conditions, particularly before the Safavid period. Tracing this practice through the work of Ibn Qūlawayh (d. 386\/978), Shaykh al-Ṭūsī, al-Tamīmī al-Sabzawārī (alive in 540\/1145), and ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī (d. 726\/1325), the author offers the first sustained study of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003etaqiyya\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the textual transmission of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eZiyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ\u003c\/i\u003e—a careful answer to a question that has been raised on the historical authenticity of this liturgical text in recent decades, and a contribution to the wider history of how Shīʿī devotional literature was preserved, copied, and quietly defended.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e\n\u003cb data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eSayyid Mahdi Mahmoudi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eis a researcher in Shīʿī manuscript studies and the textual history of Imāmī devotional literature, with a particular interest in the transmission, editing, and preservation of classical Shīʿī works.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ICAIR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51479167795478,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1201\/7404\/files\/PAPERBACK_FRONT_6x9-600x600.jpg?v=1782528031","url":"https:\/\/www.shiabookscanada.com\/products\/ziyarat-ashura-between-taqiyya-and-tabarri-a-study-on-manuscript-transmission","provider":"Shia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}