Shīʿism

Author(s)

• Kohlberg, Etan

Bibliographic Information

Shīʿism

edited by Etan Kohlberg

（The formation of the classical Islamic world / general editor, Lawrence I. Conrad, v. 33）

Ashgate/Variorum, c2003

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxviii]-xlix) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume brings together seventeen articles reflecting the wide range of scholarly interest in early Shi`ism over the past half century. All major branches of Shi`ism are covered. Some studies are historical in nature, whether dealing with specific events or offering a broad historical perspective. Others focus on literary issues, on the development of doctrine or on the relations between the Shi`a and the non-Shi`i world. The studies have been selected because they represent the best of current scholarship, or are classic works with continuing significance; six appear for the first time in English translation. The editor's introduction reviews the historiography of the field and highlights directions and trends in research and is followed by a bibliography of key further reading.

Table of Contents

• Contents: General Editor's preface
• Introduction. Imamiya: How did the early ShA (R)'a become sectarian? Marshall G.S. Hodgson
• Only the man of God is human: theology and mystical anthropology according to early Imami exegesis (aspects of Twelver Imamology IV), Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
• The death of al-Husayn b. 'Ali and early Shi'i views of the Imamate, Douglas Karim Crow
• The Hashimiyyat of al-Kumayt and Hashimi Shi'ism, Wilferd Madelung
• The crisis of the Imamate and the institution of occultation in Twelver Shi'ism: a sociohistorical perspective, Said Amir Arjomand
• The four Sufara' of the Twelfth Imam: on the formative period of the Twelver Shi'a, Verena Klemm
• Some remarks on the Imami Firaq literature, Wilferd Madelung. Ghulat: The development of the term Ghulat in Muslim literature with special reference to the Kaysaniyya, Wadad al-Qadi
• Bayan b.Sam'an and the Bayaniyya: Shi'ite extremists of Umayyad Iraq, William F. Tucker. Zaydiya: The Kamiliya: on the genesis of a heresiographical tradition, Josef van Ess
• The early history of Zaydi Shi'ism in Daylaman and Gilan, M.S. Khan. Isma'iliya: The earliest Isma'ilis, Farhad Daftary
• Isma'ilis and Qarmatians, S.M. Stern
• Methods and forms of the earliest Isma'ili Da'wa, Heinz Halm. Abbasids: On the meaning of the 'Abbasid call to al-Rida, Patricia Crone
• The 'Abbasid Dawla: an essay on the concept of revolution in early Islam, Jacob Lassner
• The religious policy of the 'Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun, Dominique Sourdel, Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA6410044X
• ISBN:
  • 0860787109
• LCCN: 2001055339
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: xlix, 382 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP193.5
  • DC21 : 297.8/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shīʿah
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA40665771