Miniature from Ferdowsi: Shahnama
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In this talk, Alberto Tiburcio will examine the Ibṣār al-Mustabṣarīn, a text of Shii apologetics, written by ʿAbd al-Vahhāb Daybulī Shīrāzi (d. after 1662), who lived and preached in both Sindh and Delhi in the mid-seventeenth century. His talk will focus on how the author integrated common references of Shii intellectual history, as well as on how he engaged Sunni jurisprudential texts, in order to disarticulate their arguments.
Through this, Tiburcio seeks to shed light on the dissemination of apologetic texts in particular, and on the dissemination of Shii knowledge in Mughal India more broadly. He will argue that, while the text does not present an explicit position on the matter, its approach to the question of ijtihād suggests that it was informed by the Akhbārī trend of Shii jurisprudence, which was flourishing in Iran at the time.
A lecture by Dr. Alberto Tiburcio (LMU) in the series Cultures of Islam by the Münchner Mittelost-Mittelmeer-Mittelasien-Zentrum (4MZ).
You can find more information on the website of the lectures series.