The Shīʿa in Iraqi Heresiography: The Structure and Transmission of the Material Up to Al-Ashʿarī (D. 324/935)

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This book addresses the presentation of the Shīʿa in the extant theological-doxographical literature of Iraq up to the early fourth century of Islam. Understanding doxographies primarily as textual products of third-century kalām circles, it provides historians with a more thorough account of the likely provenance and transmission of this important body of source material, as well as of the particular images of the early Shīʿa it constructs. Acknowledgements Contents Selective Family Tree of the Banū Hāshim Abbreviations List of Tables I Introduction II The Shape of the Iraqi Heresiographical Tradition on the Shī III The Historical Prologue: The Origins of the Major Divisions of the Muslim Community IV Firaq-material: the factions of the Shīʿa. Part 1 IV Firaq-material: the factions of the Shīʿa. Part 2 IV Firaq-material: the factions of the Shīʿa. Part 3 Appendix: On the Authorship of Firaq al-Shīʿa Bibliography Index