Shi'ism. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Etan Kohlberg.
• Editors: Kohlberg, Etan
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (440 pages)
• Subjects: 297.82; Shīʻah; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351900287; 1351900285
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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