882

,

Andrew J. Newman

Curzon

xxviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.

Culture and civilisation in the Middle East

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index

Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE: The View from Baghdad: The ShTʹa in the Early -- Third/Ninth Century -- The ShTʹi/Muʹtazili and Court Alliance During the Caliphate of -- al-Maʹmun -- Shlʹism and ʹPopularʹ Rebellion in the Umayyad and Early -- Abbasid Periods -- The Anarchy of the Second Civil War and Further ShTʹi Uprisings -- CHAPTER TWO: The View from Baghdad: The ShTʹa at the Turn -- of the Third/Ninth Century -- The Shiʹi Resurgence -- The Shiʹi Vizierates and the Rise of the Banu Nawbakht -- The Conditionality of ImamT Rationalism: The Achievements of -- the BanO Nawbakht -- Summary and Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE: Pockets of Believers: The View from the ShTʹT -- City-State of Qum -- Sunnism in Iran: Traditionism and Egalitarianism -- The Shtʹa in Third/Ninth Century Iran -- The Twelver Shtʹa in Iran: Between Centres and Peripheries -- A Shiʹi Haven: Qum and the Ashʹart Tribe -- Tribe and City -- Ashʹari Qum and Abbasid Baghdad -- CHAPTER FOUR: Al-Barqi and the Beginnings of the QummT/ -- AshʹarT Association with the Traditions -- Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Barqi: the Mawla Traditionist -- Al-Barqi and al-Mahsin -- Summary and Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE: Al-Saffarʹs Basaʹir al-Darajat: Theological -- Discourse As Encouragement -- Basaʹir as Qummi Discourse -- The Importance of ʹIlm and Its Possessors -- The Miraculous Nature, Substance and Transmission of the Imamsʹ ʹIlm -- The Unique Nature of the Imams and their Shtʹa -- The Unique Abilities of the Imams -- Summary and Conclusions -- CHAPTER SIX: Al-KulaynTʹs al-Kaff: The Qummi Response to -- Baghdadi Rationalism -- Al-KulaynT on al-Kafti2 Baghdadʹs Rationalist Discourse on the Edge -- The Centrality of al-ʹAql and al-ʹIlm: the Repudiation of Rationalism -- The Grace of al-ʹIlm -- Summary and Conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Al-Saffar and al-KulaynT on the Imams and the -- Imamate: Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad -- The Qummi/Ashʹari Connection to Twelver Traditionist Theology -- The Theology of al-Kafi Kitab al-Tawhfd -- Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad: Al-Kaftʹs Kitab al- Hujja -- The Imamology in Basaʹir and al-Kaftʹs Kitab al-,Huja: a Comparative -- Approach -- Special Effects and Possessions Possessed by the Imams -- Their Special Personages -- The Unique Abilities of the Imams -- Al-Kulayniʹs Excisions -- CHAPTER EIGHT: AI-Kafi From Theology to Practice -- The Practical Nature of al-Usilʹs Traditions -- The Traditions of al-Furdʹ as QummT Discourse on Points of Practice -- The Collection and Obligations of al-Khums -- The Collection and Distribution of Alms -- ʹFle Obligation and Conduct of Congregational Prayer -- Overt Confrontation with Authority -- Al-Amr and al-Nahy -- The Permitted Scope of Personal Relations, and Confrontation, -- With Authority -- The Implementation of al-.Hudzud During the Occultation -- Judicial Arbitration in the Absence of the Imam -- The Imams and al-Jawr in al-Kafi -- CHAPTER NINE: Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Qurʹanic verses cited -- Index

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2000