چکیده:
This article aims to re-examine the life of Ala al-Din Muhammad, the seventh leader of the Nizari Ismailis, from a different perspective. A figure who, while overseeing the religion and worldly affairs of the Nizari community, fell victim to melancholia, leading to a tense, crisis-ridden, and turbulent life. Various analyses have been presented regarding his mental and rational health; however, this article attempts to investigate the causes and factors behind the emergence of this disease and its manifestations in the ups and downs of this Ismaili Imam's life using psychological and sociological approaches, and to analyze its effects and consequences.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Of course, raising these issues does not constitute a defense of the Nizari Ismaili movement; because their thoughts and actions were sufficient to arouse the concern of any upright Muslim: the killings, continuous terrorizing, and their extreme religious beliefs, the peak of which was the announcement of the Day of Resurrection and the abrogation of Islamic Sharia and its manifestations, could not collectively portray a reasonable and logical image of them.
From the perspective of Juwayni and the historians after him—as we mentioned—the lack of upbringing and training of this child and placing him in the position of the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis "who they considered him the provider of religious and worldly affairs and the guardian of their interests" caused chaos in affairs.
However, many ambiguities are hidden in the text of this narration: Why and for what reasons did the Nizari Ismailis, immediately following the death of the new Muslim Jalal al-Din Hasan, abandon the Sunni Islamic beliefs and proceed to revive Nizari doctrines?
According to Juwayni and historians after him, Ala al-Din Muhammad, about five or six years after the end of his period of leadership—that is, at the age of fifteen or sixteen—without being afflicted by a specific physical disease or consulting his special physician, resorted to bloodletting (cupping), as a result of this phlebotomy, a large amount of blood left his body, and through this process, his mental and cerebral powers were disrupted.
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