The formative period of twelver Shīʿism : Ḥadīth as discourse between Qum and Baghdad

Author(s)

• Newman, Andrew J.

Bibliographic Information

The formative period of twelver Shīʿism : Ḥadīth as discourse between Qum and Baghdad

Andrew J. Newman

（Culture and civilization in the Middle East）

Curzon, 2000

Note

Bibliography: p. 202-208

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

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

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Details

• NCID: BA50195550
• ISBN:
  • 0700712771
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Richmond
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 222 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA40381195