al-Maʾmūn, the inquisition, and the quest for caliphal authority
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al-Maʾmūn, the inquisition, and the quest for caliphal authority
(Resources in Arabic and Islamic studies / series editors, Joseph E. Lowry, Devin J. Stewart, Shawkat M. Toorawa, no. 4)
Lockwood, 2015
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Note
"Appended to the volume is a reprint edition of Walter M. Patton's Aḥmed ibn Ḥanbal and the Miḥna (Leiden 1897)"--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Chiefly in English with some Arabic
Contents of Works
- Aḥmed ibn Ḥanbal and the miḥna / William Patton
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The "inquisition" (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era. Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and problems in early Islamic history.
In this incisive study, John Nawas subjects the various proposed explanations of these events to a sober and searching analysis and, in the process, presents a new interpretation of al-Ma'mun's political and religious policies, contextualized against the background of early Abbasid intellectual and social history.
Appended to the volume is a reprint edition of Walter M. Patton's Ahmed ibn Hanbal and the Mihna (Leiden 1897), which still has much that is useful for modern scholarship, including one enormous additional benefit; it contains most of the relevant passages in Arabic from the primary sources
Table of Contents
Series Editors' Preface
Foreword
Author's Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: 'Abdallah al-Aa'mun: His Life and Reign
Chapter 3: The Mu'tazilism, the Shi'ism, and the 'Alid Hypotheses
Chapter 4: The Caliphal Authority Hypothesis
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Appendix 1: Chronological Information, by Genre, on the Compilers of the Sources Used
Appendix 2: Information on Those Interrogated
Appendix 3: Timetable of Key Events during al-Ma'mun's Reign
Bibliography
Index
William Patton, Ahmed ibn Hanbal and the Mihna (1897)
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