Encyclopaedia Islamica, Volume 3 Adab – al-Bāb al-Ḥādī ʿashar
Brill in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the third of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an 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. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
The Encyclopaedia Islamica is available in print and at Brill Online.
Adab
ʿAdam
Adam in Islam
Adhān and iqāma
Ādharbāyjān
ʿAdī b. Ḥātim
Al-Adīb al-Naṭanzī
Adīb Ṣābir Tirmidhī
Al-ʿĀḍid
ʿĀdil-Shāhīs
Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī
Afḍal al-Dīn Kirmānī
Al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī
Afḍal Ḥusaynī
Al-Afḍal Kutayfāt
Afghan
Afghanistan
Aflākī
Afrāsiyāb
Afrāsiyāb (family)
Afshār
Afshārids
Afshīn
Aga Khan (Āqā Khān)
Āghā Muḥammad Khān Qājār
Āghāj Arī
Al-Aghānī, Kitāb
Aghlabids
Aḥdāth
Ahl al-Kitāb
Ahl-i Ḥaqq
Aḥmad
Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī
Aḥmad al-Badawī
Aḥmad al-Nāṣir
Aḥmad al-Rifāʿī
Aḥmad al-Suhrawardī
Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Mastūr
Aḥmad b. Abī Duʾād al-Ibādī
Aḥmad b. al-Ṭayyib al-Sarakhsī
Aḥmad b. Ayyūb
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā
Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā b. Zayd
Aḥmad b. Khiḍrawayh (Khiḍrūya) al-Balkhī
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā
Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar
Aḥmad Jām
Aḥmad Kāsānī
Aḥmad Kātib
Aḥmad Mashhadī
Aḥmad Mujtahid
Aḥmad Mūsā
Aḥmad Nayrīzī
Aḥmad Rasmī
Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī
Aḥmad Shāh Qājār
Aḥmad Shāmlū
Aḥmad Sirhindī
Aḥmad Yasawī
Al-Aḥnaf b. Qays
Aḥrār, Khwājah Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh
Al-Aḥsāʾī
Aḥwāl
Al-Ahwāzī, Abū al-Ḥasan
ʿĀʾisha
Akbar
Akbar-nāmah
Akhbār al-Dawla al-ʿAbbāsiyya
Al-Akhbārī, Mīrzā Muḥammad
Akhbāriyya
al-Akhfash
Akhī
Akhī Awrān
Āl Aʿyan
ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār Bukhārī
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad
Alamūt
Alfāẓ
ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-ʿAbbās
ʿAlī b. Abī Ḥamza al-Baṭāʾinī
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, Abū al-Ḥasan
ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar
ʿAlī b. Mahziyār
ʿAlī b. Maymūn
ʿAlī Riḍā ʿAbbāsī
ʿĀlī-Qāpū Palace
Allāh
Allāhwirdī Khān
Al-Ālūsī
Amālī
Al-Aʿmash
Al-Āmidī
Al-Amīn, Muḥsin
Āmina bint Wahb
Amīnjī
Amīr al-Ḥājj
Amīr al-Muʾminīn
Al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh
Amīr Ḥusaynī
Amīr Kabīr
The Amīr Kiyāʾids of Gīlān
ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr b. al-Layth
ʿAmr b. Ḥamiq al-Khuzāʿī
al-Amr bi al-maʿrūf wa al-nahy ʿan al-munkar
Anas b. Mālik
Anfāl
Anjudān
ʿAnnāzids
Anqarawī
al-Anṭākī
Anwarī
Āq Shams al-Dīn
Āqā Buzurg Tihrānī
ʿAqīl b. Abī Ṭālib
Āq-qūyūnlū
Arabic
Arbaʿīn
Ardistān, congregational mosque
Arg
Arghūn Khān
Arg-i ʿAlī Shāh
ʿĀrif Qazwīnī
Armenia
Asadī Ṭūsī
Āṣaf b. Barakhyā
al-Aṣbagh b. Nubāta
al-Ashʿarī
Ashʿarīs of Qumm
Ashʿarīs, the dissemination of Ashʿarī theology
al-Ashʿath b. Qays al-Kindī
Ashraf Jahāngīr
Ashraf-ughlī (Eşrefoğlu)
ʿĀshūrāʾ
Aṣl
Aṣlī and Karam
Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays
Al-Asmāʾ wa al-aḥkām
al-Aṣmaʿī
Al-Asmar
Assassins
ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī
ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī
Awliyā Chalabī
Awtād
Al-Awzāʿī
Āyāt al-aḥkām
Āyat Allāh
ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī
Al-ʿAyyāshī
Ayyūbids
Al-Azhar
Aẓhar Tabrīzī
Aẓhar, Imāmzādah
al-Azharī
Al-ʿAzīz bi’llāh
Bā ʿAlawī
Bāb
al-Bāb al-Ḥādīʿashar
‘Clearly the editors of ISLA have selected articles they consider will augment the existing reference sources – and they have completed this selection task with acumen and skill. The work as a whole remains, however, a “specialist encyclopaedia” [...] - or perhaps more accurately, it is an encyclopaedia for specialists [...]. In that sense, it is a valuable addition [...] to the reference work available at present. Perhaps its greatest merit is that it brings to an international audience a key example of and an excellent advertisement for high-quality Iranian scholarship which has hitherto been available but known only to a few.’
– Robert Gleave, Journal of the American Oriental Society
‘[T]he publication of Encyclopaedia Islamica is a notable step forward in including the Shi‘a viewpoint in scholarship on Islam.’
– Mousa al-Reza Wahdati, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies
‘Printed on coated paper, the five volumes so far published are an impressive achievement both in production as well as in scholarship related to Persian themes.’
– Yashab Tur, Islamic Sciences
Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies, consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver Shi‘ism, Zaydism and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with The Institute of Ismaili Studies.