The charismatic community : Shiʿite identity in early Islam
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The charismatic community : Shiʿite identity in early Islam
（SUNY series in Islam）
State University of New York Press, c2007
- : hardcover
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 301-311
Includes index
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Contents of Works
- Introduction
- Pt. I. The principle of walāyah and the origins of the community
- Walāyah in the Islamic tradition
- The Ghadīr Khumm tradition: walāyah and the spiritual distinctions of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
- Walāyah, authority and religious community in the first civil war
- The Shiʿite community in the aftermath of the first civil war
- Pt. II. Walāyah, faith and the charismatic nature of Shiʿite identity
- Walāyah as the essence of religion: theological developments at the turn of the second Islamic century
- Membership in the Shiʿite community and salvation
- Predestination and the mythological origins of Shiʿite identity
- The charismatic nature and spiritual distinction of the Shiʿites
- Pt. III. Creating a community within a community
- Shiʿites and non-Shiʿites: the distinction between Imān and Islām
- Degrees of faith: establishing a hierarchy within the Shiʿite community
- "Rarer than red sulfur": women's identity in early Shiʿism
- Perforated boundaries: establishing two codes of conduct