Twelver Shiism : unity and diversity in the life of Islam, 632 to 1722

Twelver Shiism : unity and diversity in the life of Islam, 632 to 1722 / Andrew J. Newman.

As many as 40 different Shìi groups existed in the 9th and 10th centuries yet only 3 forms have survived. Why is Twelver Shìism one of them As the established faith in modern Iran, the majority faith in Iraq and areas in the Gulf and with its adherents forming sizeable minorities elsewhere in the...

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Main Author: Newman, Andrew J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Series:New Edinburgh Islamic surveys.
Subjects:
Shīʿah > History.
Shīʿah > Doctrines > History.
Imams (Shiites)
RELIGION > Islam > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Shīʻah
Shīʻah > Doctrines
Imamiten
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Shiism fragmented: the faith and the faithful from the seventh to the ninth century ; CHAPTER 2 Bereft of a leader: The early traditionists and the beginnings of doctrine and practice ; CHAPTER 3 The challenge of 'the Uncertainty' ; CHAPTER 4 Majority and minority: rationalism on the defensive in the later Buyid period ; CHAPTER 5 Betwixt and between: the Twelvers and the Turks ; CHAPTER 6 The Mongol and Ilkhanid periods: the rise and limits of the school of al-Hilla ; CHAPTER 7 The severest of challenges.
  • CHAPTER 8 Shiism in the sixteenth century: the limits of power (and influence) CHAPTER 9 The past rediscovered and the future assured: Shiism in the seventeenth century ; Epilogue; Appendix I Scholars by region: fifth-twelfth Islamic centuries/eleventh-eighteenth centuries ad* ; Appendix II Manuscript copies of key Twelver Shii written works, sixth-thirteenth Islamic centuries/twelfth-nineteenth centuries ad*; Appendix III Selected Safavid period rijal works* ; Appendix IV Shuruh/Hawashi of key Twelver works, sixth-twelfth Islamic centuries/twelfth-eighteenth centuries ad*; Bibliography.

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