The present volume--the first of its kind--deals with takfīr: accusing ones opponents of unbelief (kufr). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents--either persons, groups or even institutions--as unbelievers who should be condemned, anathematized or even persecuted. Each case presented is placed in its...

La presente etude, L imamat et l Occultation selon l imamisme, Etude bibliographique et histoire de textes, concerne l evolution religieuse et historique du Hadith imamite autour de la constitution progressive et complexe des doctrines aussi fondamentales que l imamat et l Occultation. L annexe de ce travail comprend les textes en arabe de ces ecrits identifies et reconstitues a travers leurs citations. In his work, L imamat et l Occultation selon l imamisme, Etude bibliographique et histoire de textes, Hassan Ansari has attempted to reconstruct a number of doctrines related to...