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

ISBN-13: 9780700712779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 252 str.

Andrew J. Newman

Opis

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

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Andrew J. Newman