TY - BOOK AU - Dunietz,Alexandra Whelan TI - The cosmic perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudi in fifteenth-century Iran T2 - Islamicate intellectual history SN - 9789004302327 AV - BP80.Q3184 D86 2016 U1 - 955/.028092B 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston, Leiden PB - Brill KW - Qāḍī Mīr, Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn, KW - Muslim scholars KW - Iran KW - Biography KW - Judges KW - Sunnites KW - Relations KW - Shīʻah N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; 1 Introduction; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; 2 Early Years and Education; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; 3 The Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i -ʿAlī ; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; 4 Qadi Maybudī; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; 5 Last Years and Safavid Confrontation; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; 6 Conclusion; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; Bibliography; Alexandra W. Dunietz --; Index; Alexandra W. Dunietz; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - In The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī in Fifteenth-Century Iran Alexandra Dunietz explores the life and works of a provincial judge during a time of tribal rivalries and millennial expectations. During the decades preceding the rise of the Safavid regime and the establishment of Shiʿism throughout Iran, Maybudī participated in a network of intellectuals, administrators, and mystics, wrote prolifically, and worked as a judge within the Ak Koyunlu sphere. Drawing upon Maybudī’s commentaries and correspondence, the work focuses on the judge’s education, complex commentary on the poetry of ʿAlī, the foundational figure of Shiʿism, his professional life, and his death during a rebellion against Safavid control of his hometown. Maybudī exemplified the natural development of relations between Sunnis and Shiis, provincial elites and central authorities, rationalist philosophers and devotees of the esoteric UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004302327 ER -