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Phenomenology versus Historicism: The Case of lmamate Mohammed Awais Refudeen Introduction _ The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that phenomenological approaches, which include the significance of constructed meanings and symbolic values of events and personalities in their understanding, cannot be reconciled with historicism and positivist accounts of history.
In order to contrast the differences in the phenomenological and historicist accounts and also to test Eliade's contentions, this paper employs the Shi'i idea of Imamate as a case study.
Montgomery Watt have adopted phenomenological and historicist approaches, respectively, in their studies of the Shi'i concept of Imamate.
With reference to the content of Corbin's and Watt's expositions at the empirical and conceptual levels I show that these approaches are mutually exclusive and cannot be conceptually integrated into Eliade's framework.
Montgomery Watt an Englishman, and Henri Corbin, a Frenchman are famous scholars of Islamic tradition who have approached the study of the lmamate in Ithna 'Ashari or Imami Shi'isrn from different perspectives.
In Corbin's view, then, the meaning and cause of the Imamate should be seen in accordance with the primordial conception of reality at both esoteric and exoteric levels, not in terms of historicism: ...
Further, Watt's view of "charis- mata," noted earlier as a fundamentally human product, implicitly denies the Shi'a belief concerning the divine nature of the Imam.
45 This "history of the Spirit"-a usage employed by Eliade-is problematic from the perspective of both Corbin's and Watt's approaches.