num_pages: 252
description: 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
language: English
title: The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad
titlecomplete: The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)
genres: History, Islam
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Routledge