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The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism
Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad
- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Transliteration
- CHAPTER ONE: The View from Baghdad: The Shī‘a in the Early Third/Ninth Century
- CHAPTER TWO: The View from Baghdad: The Shī‘a at the Turn of the Third/Ninth Century
- CHAPTER THREE: Pockets of Believers: The View from the Shī‘ī City-State of Qum
- CHAPTER FOUR: Al-Barqī and the Beginnings of the Qummī/Ash‘arī Association with the Traditions
- CHAPTER FIVE: Al-Saffār’s Basā’ir al-Darajāt: Theological Discourse As Encouragement
- CHAPTER SIX: Al-Kulaynī’s al-Kāfī: The Qummī Response to Baghdadi Rationalism
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Al-Saffār and al-Kulaynī on the Imams and the Imamate: Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Al-Kāfī From Theology to Practice
- CHAPTER NINE: Summary and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of Qur’ānic verses cited
- Index