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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- © Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS
- Subject
- English Articles; Islamic Studies
- ISSN
- 1465-3591
- eISSN
- 1755-1730
- DOI
- 10.3366/jqs.2011.0019
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
<jats:p> This study argues that the exponential growth of divinatory texts variously attributed to ʿAlī and Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq included at the end of Qur'ans produced during the Ṣafavid period provides further evidence for the widespread interest in divination during the tenth/sixteenth and eleventh/seventeenth centuries in Iran. Treatises on ‘divination by the Qur'an’ (fāl-i Qurʾān) indicate that it was considered permissible to seek guidance by means of holy scripture at this time. On a more symbolic level, fāl-i Qurʾāns can be understood as a kind of restoration of the ‘defective’ ʿUthmānic codex by re-Shīʿifying it – if not by reinserting supposedly dropped verses on the ahl al-bayt, then at the very least by adding terminal divinations attributed to the figureheads of Shīʿī Islam. This particular practice therefore follows general ‘Shīʿification’ trends found in a number of cultural and artistic practices of the Ṣafavid period, which also are potentially discernible within the domain of Qur'an production. </jats:p>
Journal
Journal of Qur'anic Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2011