Shi'ism

Description

This volume brings together seventeen articles reflecting the wide range of scholarly interest in early Shi`ism over the past half century. All major branches of Shi`ism are covered. Some studies are historical in nature, whether dealing with specific events or offering a broad historical perspective. Others focus on literary issues, on the development of doctrine or on the relations between the Shi`a and the non-Shi`i world. The studies have been selected because they represent the best of current scholarship, or are classic works with continuing significance; six appear for the first time in English translation. The editor's introduction reviews the historiography of the field and highlights directions and trends in research and is followed by a bibliography of key further reading. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface Introduction Imāmīya 1. How Did the Early Shî'a Become Sectarian? 2. Only the Man of God is Human: Theology and Mystical Anthropology According to Early Imāmī Exegesis (Aspects of Twelver Imamology IV) 3. The Death of al-Husayn b. 'Alī and Early Shī'ī Views of the Imamate 4. The Hāshimiyyāt of al-Kumayt and Hāshimī Shi'ism 5. The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi'ism: a Sociohistorical Perspective 6. The Four Sufarā' of the Twelfth Imām: On the Formative Period of the Twelver Shī'a 7. Some Remarks on the Imāmī Firaq Literature Ghulāt 8. The Development of the Term Ghulāt in Muslim Literature with Special Reference to the Kaysāniyya 9. Bayān b. Sam'ān and the Bayāniyya: Shī'ite Extremists of Umayyad Iraq Zaydīya 10. The Kāmilīya: On the Genesis of a Heresiographical Tradition 11. The Early History of Zaydī Shī'ism in Daylamān and Gīlān Ismā'īlīya 12. The Earliest Ismā'īlīs 13. Ismā'īlīs and Qarmatians 14. Methods and Forms of the Earliest Ismā'īlī Da'wa 'Abbāsids 15. On the Meaning of the 'Abbasid Call to al-Riḍā 16. The 'Abbasid Dawla: an Essay on the Concept of Revolution in Early Islam 17. The Religious Policy of the 'Abbāsid Caliph al-Ma'mūn General Index