Agents of the hidden Imam : forging twelver Shiʿism, 850-950 CE

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Agents of the hidden Imam : forging twelver Shiʿism, 850-950 CE

Edmund Hayes

(Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization)

Cambridge University Press, 2022

  • : hardback

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Agents of the hidden Imam : forging twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-241) and index

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内容説明

In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden twelfth Imam. This was the beginning of 'Twelver' Shi'ism. Edmund Hayes provides an innovative approach to exploring early Shi'ism, moving beyond doctrinal history to provide an analysis of the socio-political processes leading to the canonisation of the Occultation of the twelfth Imam. Hayes shows how these agents cemented their authority by reproducing the physical signs of the Imamate, including protocols of succession, letters and the alm taxes. Four of these agents were ultimately canonised as "envoys" but traces of earlier conceptions of authority remain embedded in the earliest reports. Hayes dissects the complex and contradictory Occultation narratives to show how, amidst the claims of numerous actors, the institutional positioning of the envoys allowed them to assert a quasi-Imamic authority in the absence of an Imam.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. The rise of the agents in the late Imamate (830-874 CE)
  • 2. The crisis before the crisis. The feud between Imamic contenders and the power of the agents
  • 3. Crisis! The mother, the brother, the concubine and the politics of inheritance
  • 4. The agents of the Nahiya in the era of perplexity
  • 5. The creation of an envoy: The rise of Abu Ja'far al-'Amri
  • 6. Rise and fall: Ibn Rawh, Shalmaghani, and rise and collapse of the envoyship
  • Conclusion.

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