The caliph and the heretic
Subtitle: Ibn Sabaʻ and the origins of Shiʻism
By: by Sean W. Anthony
Series: Islamic history and civilization -- v. 91
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden ; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789004209305
Subjects: Muslim heretics; Shīʻah; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ibn Sabaʻ and the Sayfian corpus; title: Sayf ibn ʻUmar and the Sabaʻiya (i): the caliphate of ʻUthman ibn ʻAffan; title: Sayf ibn ʻUmar and the Sabaʻiya (ii): ʻAli ibn Abi Tālib the Battle of the camel; title: Excursus: The Sayfian corpus in the riwaya of Naṣr ibn Muzaḥim; title: Ibn Sabaʻ and the heresiographers; title: The execution of Ibn Sabaʻ; title: The parousia of ʻAli ibn Abi Ṭalib; title: Excursus 1: ʻAli in the clouds; title: Excursus 2: The letter of ʻAli given to ʻAbd Allah ibn Wahb al-Hamdani; title: The Sabaʻiya of the Umayyad period.