The formative period of Twelver Shīʻism
Subtitle: Ḥadīth as discourse between Qum and Baghdad
By: Andrew J. Newman.
Series: Culture and civilisation in the Middle East
Publisher: Curzon
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Imams (Shiites); Shīʻah -- History; Hadith (Shiites)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE: The View from Baghdad: The ShT'a in the Early; title: Third/Ninth Century; title: The ShT'i/Mu'tazili and Court Alliance During the Caliphate of; title: al-Ma'mun; title: Shl'ism and 'Popular' Rebellion in the Umayyad and Early; title: Abbasid Periods; title: The Anarchy of the Second Civil War and Further ShT'i Uprisings; title: CHAPTER TWO: The View from Baghdad: The ShT'a at the Turn; title: of the Third/Ninth Century; title: The Shi'i Resurgence; title: The Shi'i Vizierates and the Rise of the Banu Nawbakht; title: The Conditionality of ImamT Rationalism: The Achievements of; title: the BanO Nawbakht; title: Summary and Conclusion; title: CHAPTER THREE: Pockets of Believers: The View from the ShT'T; title: City-State of Qum; title: Sunnism in Iran: Traditionism and Egalitarianism; title: The Sht'a in Third/Ninth Century Iran; title: The Twelver Sht'a in Iran: Between Centres and Peripheries; title: A Shi'i Haven: Qum and the Ash'art Tribe; title: Tribe and City; title: Ash'ari Qum and Abbasid Baghdad; title: CHAPTER FOUR: Al-Barqi and the Beginnings of the QummT/; title: Ash'arT Association with the Traditions; title: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Barqi: the Mawla Traditionist; title: Al-Barqi and al-Mahsin; title: Summary and Conclusion; title: CHAPTER FIVE: Al-Saffar's Basa'ir al-Darajat: Theological; title: Discourse As Encouragement; title: Basa'ir as Qummi Discourse; title: The Importance of 'Ilm and Its Possessors; title: The Miraculous Nature, Substance and Transmission of the Imams' 'Ilm; title: The Unique Nature of the Imams and their Sht'a; title: The Unique Abilities of the Imams; title: Summary and Conclusions; title: CHAPTER SIX: Al-KulaynT's al-Kaff: The Qummi Response to; title: Baghdadi Rationalism; title: Al-KulaynT on al-Kafti2 Baghdad's Rationalist Discourse on the Edge; title: The Centrality of al-'Aql and al-'Ilm: the Repudiation of Rationalism; title: The Grace of al-'Ilm; title: Summary and Conclusion; title: CHAPTER SEVEN: Al-Saffar and al-KulaynT on the Imams and the; title: Imamate: Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad; title: The Qummi/Ash'ari Connection to Twelver Traditionist Theology; title: The Theology of al-Kafi Kitab al-Tawhfd; title: Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad: Al-Kaft's Kitab al- Hujja; title: The Imamology in Basa'ir and al-Kaft's Kitab al-,Huja: a Comparative; title: Approach; title: Special Effects and Possessions Possessed by the Imams; title: Their Special Personages; title: The Unique Abilities of the Imams; title: Al-Kulayni's Excisions; title: CHAPTER EIGHT: AI-Kafi From Theology to Practice; title: The Practical Nature of al-Usil's Traditions; title: The Traditions of al-Furd' as QummT Discourse on Points of Practice; title: The Collection and Obligations of al-Khums; title: The Collection and Distribution of Alms; title: 'Fle Obligation and Conduct of Congregational Prayer; title: Overt Confrontation with Authority; title: Al-Amr and al-Nahy; title: The Permitted Scope of Personal Relations, and Confrontation,; title: With Authority; title: The Implementation of al-.Hudzud During the Occultation; title: Judicial Arbitration in the Absence of the Imam; title: The Imams and al-Jawr in al-Kafi; title: CHAPTER NINE: Summary and Conclusions; title: Bibliography; title: Index of Qur'anic verses cited; title: Index.