Abstract
The revelation of Muḥammad's prophetic message gave Faḍl Allāh a specific vantage point on the contemporary situation of Islamic religious dogma and on the direction of its further development. The Jāwidān-nāma is the foundational work of this movement, which came to be known, mainly through its descriptions in external sources, under the name of Ḥurūfiyya . The Jāwidān-nāma does not seem to contain any theory that is explicitly opposed to the majority dogma. On the contrary, the text arguably bears traces of an effort reconciling the competing currents of contemporary Islam, mainly focused on the Sunnī/Shīʿī rapprochement, characteristic of the post-Mongol Iranian context. This chapter discusses the Jāwidān-nāma 's theory of motherly ( ummī ) prophets. According to the Jāwidān-nāma , the most complete knowledge of God available to any created being is contained in the divine Word, which is the first emanation of the unfathomable divine Essence. Keywords: Ḥurūfiyya ; Islamic religious dogma; Jāwidān-nāma ; Muḥammad's prophetic message; Sunnī/Shīʿī rapprochement
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