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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Language: English
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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
- 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.