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It was later transplanted to Syria by the 10th-century Nusayris, whose final redaction of the work was preserved in a Persian translation produced by the Nizari Isma’ilis of Central Asia.[1] The work only survives in Persian.[2] It contains no notable elements of Isma’ili doctrine,[3] but given the fact that Isma’ili authors starting from the 10th century were influenced by early ghul\u0101t ideas such as those found in the Umm al-kit\u0101b,[4] and especially given the influence of these ideas on later Tayyibi Isma’ilism,[5] some Isma’ilis do regard the work as one of the most important works in their tradition.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4The work presents itself as a revelation of secret knowledge by the Shi’i Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (677\u2013732) to his disciple Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju’fi (died c.\u2009745\u2013750).[6] Its doctrinal contents correspond to a large degree to what 9th\/10th-century heresiographers ascribed to various ghul\u0101t sects,[6] with a particular resemblance to the ideas of the Mukhammisa.[1] It contains a lengthy exposition of the typical ghul\u0101t myth of the pre-existent shadows (Arabic: a\u1e93illa) who created the world by their fall from grace, as is also found in the Kit\u0101b al-Haft wa-l-a\u1e93illa attributed to al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju’fi (died before 799).[6]The work must have been multicultural in language, since it includes Arabic, Persian and Aramaic terms. Orthodox and heterodox Jewish, Zoroastrian, Manichaean and Mandaean motifs appear. The tone and style of the work hint that the authors of the work were probably of middle class origin, with some distance to other Muslim groups, like the politically active Shiites and those advocating asceticism.[7]The treatise offers an esoteric hermeneutics concerning cosmology, the nature of man, and worship within a Qur’anic context.[8]The book may be an attempt to reconcile dualistic cosmologies, as found among the pre-Islamic Persians, with Islamic monotheism. Several principles of evil, such as the Persian figure Ahriman, are said to be merely a later incarnation of the fallen angel Azazil, who in turn owes his existence to God.[9]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsSee also[edit]References[edit]Bibliography[edit]Tertiary sources[edit]Secondary sources[edit]Primary sources[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]^ a b c Daftary 2015.^ Persian text edited by Ivanow 1936. Full Italian translation by Filippani-Ronconi 1966. Partial German translation by Tijdens 1977. German translation of some parts of the text in Halm 1981, pp. 36 ff. and Halm 1982, pp. 113 ff.^ Daftary 2015; De Smet 2020, p.\u00a0303.^ Early Isma’ili authors who adapted ghul\u0101t ideas include Ja’far ibn Mansur al-Yaman (died c.\u2009957; see De Smet 2020, pp.\u00a0303, 308) and Abu Ya’qub al-Sijistani (died after 971; see De Smet 2020, pp. 304, 307\u2013308).^ De Smet 2020, pp. 320\u2013321 et passim.^ a b c Halm 2001\u20132012.^ Beinhauer-K\u00f6hler 2004.^ Nasr & Aminrazavi 2008, p.\u00a016.^ Friedman 2010, p.\u00a097.Bibliography[edit]Tertiary sources[edit]Secondary sources[edit]Anthony, Sean W. (2011). “The Legend of \u02bfAbdall\u0101h ibn Saba\u02be and the Date of Umm al-Kit\u0101b”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 21 (1): 1\u201330. JSTOR\u00a023011519.Beinhauer-K\u00f6hler, B\u00e4rbel (2004). “Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm al-Kit\u0101b. Untersuchungen zur Tr\u00e4gerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der h\u00e4retischen Schia”.  In Auffarth, Christoph; Stuckenbruck, Loren (eds.). The Fall of the Angels. Themes in Biblical Narrative. Vol.\u00a06. Leiden: Brill. pp.\u00a0161\u2013175. doi:10.1163\/9789047404330_010. ISBN\u00a0978-90-04-12668-8.De Smet, Daniel (2020). “The Intellectual Interactions of Yemeni \u1e6cayyibism with the Early Shi\u02bfi Tradition”.  In Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan (ed.). Intellectual Interactions in the Islamic World: The Ismaili Thread. London: I.B. Tauris. pp.\u00a0299\u2013321. ISBN\u00a0978-1-83860-485-1.Filippani-Ronconi, Pio (1964). “Note sulla soteriologia e sul simbolismo cosmico dell’Ummu’l-kit\u0101b”. AION. 14 (1): 111\u2013134.Friedman, Yaron (2010). The Nu\u1e63ayr\u012b-\u02bfAlaw\u012bs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol.\u00a077. Leiden: Brill. ISBN\u00a0978-90-04-17892-2.H\u00e4meen-Anttila, Jaakko (2001). “Ascent and Descent in Islamic Myth”.  In Whiting, Robert M. (ed.). Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Paris, France, October 4-7, 1999. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. pp.\u00a047\u201367. ISBN\u00a09789514590498. OCLC\u00a0912739664. (situates the Umm al-kit\u0101b in its Mesopotamian context)Ivanow, Wladimir (1932). “Notes sur l’Ummu’l-kitab des Isma\u00ebliens de l’Asie Centrale”. Revue des \u00c9tudes Islamiques. 6: 419\u2013481.Nasr, S. H.; Aminrazavi, Mehdi (2008). Anthology of Philosophy in Persia: Ismaili Thought in the Classical Age. I.B.Tauris. ISBN\u00a0978-0-857-71042-0.Radtke, Bernd (1990). “Iranian and Gnostic Elements in Early Ta\u1e63awwuf. Observations concerning the Umm al-Kit\u0101b”.  In Gnoli, Gherardo; Panaino, Antonio (eds.). Proceedings of the first European Conference of Iranian Studies held in Turin, September 7th-11th, 1987 by the Societas Iranologica Europaea. Volume 2: Middle and New Iranian Studies. Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. pp.\u00a0519\u2013529. ISBN\u00a09788863230765. OCLC\u00a0956121455.Primary sources[edit]Filippani-Ronconi, Pio (1966). Ummu’l-kitab: Introduzione, traduzione e note di Pio Filippani-Ronconi. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. ISBN\u00a0978-88-97278-43-6. OCLC\u00a0635942972. (Italian translation)Halm, Heinz (1981). “Das \u201eBuch der Schatten”. Die Mufa\u1e0d\u1e0dal-Tradition der \u0120ul\u0101t und die Urspr\u00fcnge des Nu\u1e63airiertums. II. Die Stoffe”. Der Islam. 58 (1): 15\u201386. doi:10.1515\/islm.1981.58.1.15. (German translations of parts of the text on pp. 36 ff.)Halm, Heinz (1982). Die islamische Gnosis: Die Schia und die \u02bfAlawiten. Z\u00fcrich and M\u00fcnchen: Artemis Verlag. ISBN\u00a0978-3-7608-4530-2. (German translations of parts of the text on pp. 113 ff.)Ivanow, Wladimir (1936). “Ummu\u1fbdl-kit\u0101b”. Der Islam. 23 (1\u20132): 1\u2013132. doi:10.1515\/islm.1936.23.1-2.1. (edition of the Persian text)Tijdens, E. F. (1977). “Der mythologisch-gnostische Hintergrund des Umm al-kit\u00e2b”. Acta Iranica. VII: 241\u2013526. OCLC\u00a0470066089. (partial German translation)     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/umm-al-kitab-shii-book-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Umm al-kitab (Shi’i book) – Wikipedia"}}]}]