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Books Received Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad-Ali, Maria De Cillis, Daniel De Smet, and Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, eds. 2016L’Ésotérisme shi’ite, ses racines et ses prolongements. Shi’i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses (behe 177). Turnhout: Brepols. v+870 p. € 95,00 isbn 978-2-503-56874-4.Together with the notion of secrecy, the core of Shi’i esotericism gravitates around the ẓāhir/bāṭin dualism. This dialectical relationship between the visible and the hidden, which has been inherited from late antiquity, buttresses the main doctrines of esoteric Shi’ism, which include a dualistic worldview, doctrines of emanation, the contrast between the people of knowledge and of ignorance, the soterial nature of knowledge and of the Guide who possesses it, the two levels of the scriptures, the need for hermeneutics, and initiatory knowledge and practices. It is true that the birthplace of Shi’ism was Iraq, which had been the central province of the Sassanid Persian empire until the advent of Islam. This region and its main cities were home to the many intellectual and spiritual traditions of late antiquity, including various Jewish, Christian, Judeo-Christian, Mazdean, Manichean, Neoplatonic, and gnostic movements, with these traditions living on for several centuries after the advent of the religion of the Arabs. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies Brill

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Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad-Ali, Maria De Cillis, Daniel De Smet, and Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, eds. 2016L’Ésotérisme shi’ite, ses racines et ses prolongements. Shi’i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses (behe 177). Turnhout: Brepols. v+870 p. € 95,00 isbn 978-2-503-56874-4.Together with the notion of secrecy, the core of Shi’i esotericism gravitates around the ẓāhir/bāṭin dualism. This dialectical relationship between the visible and the hidden, which has been inherited from late antiquity, buttresses the main doctrines of esoteric Shi’ism, which include a dualistic worldview, doctrines of emanation, the contrast between the people of knowledge and of ignorance, the soterial nature of knowledge and of the Guide who possesses it, the two levels of the scriptures, the need for hermeneutics, and initiatory knowledge and practices. It is true that the birthplace of Shi’ism was Iraq, which had been the central province of the Sassanid Persian empire until the advent of Islam. This region and its main cities were home to the many intellectual and spiritual traditions of late antiquity, including various Jewish, Christian, Judeo-Christian, Mazdean, Manichean, Neoplatonic, and gnostic movements, with these traditions living on for several centuries after the advent of the religion of the Arabs. The

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