The Political Metaphysics of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī's Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ: From Ontological Monism to Political Monism
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In the Book of Sources (Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ), Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī proposes a theoretical foundation for the Ismāʿīliyyah, a religious community that expresses itself as a political movement. This paper, meant for a reader who is new to the topic, seeks to show that the text’s political philosophy is born at the angle in which the synchronous vision of a Neoplatonic-rooted metaphysics and the diachronic vision of a Ismāʿīlī-rooted prophetology overlap.
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En árabe
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī, Kitāb al-yanābīʿ, ed. Muṣṭafā Ghālib, Trading Office, Beyrouth 1965.
— « Kitâb al-Yanâbîʿ », en Henry Corbin (ed.), Trilogie ismaélienne, Institut Franco-iranien, Tehran–Paris 1961 (Bibliothèque iranienne, 9), p. 2–97 [texto árabe].
En traducción
Abū Yaʿqūb As-Sijistānī, The Wellsprings of Wisdom. A Study of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī’s Kitāb al-Yanābīʾ. Including a Complete English Translation with Commentary and Notes on the Arabic Text, trad. Paul E. Walker, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 1994.
— « Kitâb al-Yanâbîʿ », en Henry Corbin (ed. y trad.), Trilogie ismaélienne, Institut Franco-iranien, Tehran–Paris 1961, p. 5–127 [texto francés]. (2da edición: Abû Ya’qûb Sejestânî, « Kitâb al-Yanâbîʿ », en H. Corbin (ed. y trad.), Trilogie ismaélienne, Verdier, Paris 1994, p. 1–164 [texto francés].)
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