Shi'ism

by Etan Kohlberg (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780860787105
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/07/2003
Series:	The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents: General Editor's preface; Introduction. Imamiya: How did the early Shî’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.

Editorial Reviews

'... a compulsory reference work on the history and the spiritual doctrines of Shi'ism.' Connaissance des Religions

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