The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad / Edition 1

by Andrew J. Newman

Overview

Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution favoured the narration of different bodies of the Imams' traditions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700712779
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/03/2000
Series:	Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The View from Baghdad; Chapter 2 The View from Baghdad; Chapter 3 Pockets of Believers; Chapter 4 Al-Barq? and the Beginnings of the Qumm?/Ash?ar? Association with the Traditions; Chapter 5 Al-?aff?r’s Ba???ir al-Daraj?t; Chapter 6 Al-Kulayn?’s al-K?f?; Chapter 7 Al-?aff?r and al-Kulayn? on the Imams and the Imamate; Chapter 8 Al-K?f? From Theology to Practice; Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions;

Editorial Reviews

'This book is an excellent initial step in Shi‘i hadith studies.' - Journal of Semitic Studies

'The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism teaches us a great deal both about hadith collections in general, and about Shi'i hadith and the development of Imami Shi'ism, in particular.' - Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies

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