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)

Format: eBook

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

Table of Contents:
  • 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.