REL 137g 1st Edition Lecture 22 Current Lecture Ismail the 7th imam dies and his son Muhammad ibn Ismail follows His followers completely branch off and create their own doctrine This community is separate from the 12ers He disappears enters into occultation Very mysterious it is not known when he will return Messiah ism Followers are called the Fatimids One of the most powerful dynasties Would rival the Abbasids Settled in Cairo Ruled over a predominantly Sunni population They made no attempt to get rid of the Sunnis Ghadir Khumm Brook or stream where the Prophet is reported to have said that Ali is his patron Anyone who supports Muhammad must support Ali Shiite 12ers take this report as an explicit command to have Ali has Muhammad s successor Zahir vs Batin Zahir manifest exoteric clear meaning Batin hidden esoteric figurative and metaphorical meaning The number 7 History cycles in 7 7 prophets who come with each of these cycles With a manifest message Adam Noah Abraham Moses Jesus Muhammad The Silent One or the Sanit asas foundation Comes after the first 6 prophets Then followed by 7 imams He is the one who brings the batin the hidden meaning of the message Ali is the silent one He rises back to the level of the natiq speaker Brings a new law exoteric revelation Pulls back all the veils from the words of the Qur an and Prophet Exposes hidden meaning Antinomianism is a prominent feature Moral law is of no use because faith alone is needed for salvation Caliph vs sultan Authority vs power The sultan cannot be caliph because of the Sunni doctrine that says a caliph must be from the tribe of the Prophet from the Quraysh Eventually the caliph ceases to have ultimate power The traditional caliphate dies with the Mongol invasion Is replaced by the sultan Leads to the decentralization of the Muslim community With no caliph to unite them Sultan can only rule over the state not over the entire community Under the sultan State policy Jurists law
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