In praise of the few : studies in Shiʻi thought and history /

"In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʻi Thought and History is a selection of Etan Kohlberg's research on Shiʻi Islam over a period of fifty years. It includes previously published articles, revised dissertation chapters, and a full bibliography of the author's work. Divided into two...

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Main Author: Kohlberg, Etan (Author)

Other Authors: Ehteshami, Amin (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Shii Islam: Texts and Studies; volume 01.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Call Number: BP192.3 .K64 2020

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505 0 |a Sunni views on the Prophet's Companions -- Muʻtazilī views on the Companions -- Some Imāmī Shiʻi views on the Companions -- Imāmī Shiʻi views on the participants in the Battles of Camel and Ṣiffīn -- The accepted Companions -- The Companions as authorities -- Some Zaydī views on the Companions -- The term "rāfiḍa" in Imāmī Shiʻi usage -- The evolution of the Shiʻa -- Imam and community in the pre-Ghayba period -- From Imāmiyya to ithnā ʻAshariyya -- Early attestations of the term "ithnā ʻAshariyya" -- The term "muḥaddath" in Twelver Shiʻism -- In praise of the few -- Taqiyya in Shiʻi theology and religion -- ʻAlī b. Mūsā ibn Ṭāwūs and his polemic against Sunnism -- Some Shiʻi views of the antediluvian world -- Authoritative scriptures in early Imāmī Shiʻism -- Vision and the imams -- An unusual Shiʻi Isnād -- al-Uṣūl al-arbaʻumiʼa -- The Abū Baṣīr tradition: Qurʼanic verses on the merits of the Shiʻa -- The development of the Imāmī Shiʻi doctrine of jihād -- The position of the walad zinā in Imāmī Shiʻism -- Aspects of Akhbārī thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 
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