The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad

by Newman,Andrew J.

• ISBN13: 9780700712779
• ISBN10: 0700712771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-03
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xiii
Transliteration	xxviii
The View from Baghdad: The Shia in the Early Third/Ninth Century	1	(11)
The Shii/Mutazili and Court Alliance During the Caliphate of al-Mamun	2	(3)
Shiism and `Popular' Rebellion in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	5	(3)
The Anarchy of the Second Civil War and Further Shii Uprisings	8	(4)
The View from Baghdad: The Shia at the Turn of the Third/Ninth Century	12	(20)
The Shii Resurgence	15	(2)
The Shii Vizierates and the Rise of the Banu Nawbakht	17	(2)
The Conditionality of Imami Rationalism: The Achievements of the Banu Nawbakht	19	(7)
Summary and Conclusion	26	(6)
Pockets of Believers: The View from the Shii City-State of Qum	32	(18)
Sunnism in Iran: Traditionism and Egalitarianism	32	(1)
The Shia in Third/Ninth Century Iran	33	(2)
The Twelver Shia in Iran: Between Centres and Peripheries	35	(3)
A Shii Haven: Qum and the Ashari Tribe	38	(2)
Tribe and City	40	(2)
Ashari Qum and Abbasid Baghdad	42	(8)
Al-Barqi and the Beginnings of the Qummi/Ashari Association with the Traditions	50	(17)
Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Barqi: the Mawla Traditionist	51	(1)
Al-Barqi and al-Mahasin	52	(7)
Summary and Conclusion	59	(8)
Al-Saffar's Basair al-Darajat: Theological Discourse As Encouragement	67	(27)
Basair as Qummi Discourse	67	(2)
The Importance of Ilm and Its Possessors	69	(2)
The Miraculous Nature, Substance and Transmission of the Imams' Ilm	71	(7)
The Unique Nature of the Imams and their Shia	78	(2)
The Unique Abilities of the Imams	80	(4)
Summary and Conclusions	84	(10)
Al-Kulayni's al-Kafi: The Qummi Response to Baghdadi Rationalism	94	(19)
Al-Kulayni on al-Kafi: Baghdad's Rationalist Discourse on the Edge	98	(3)
The Centrality of al-Aql and al-Ilm: the Repudiation of Rationalism	101	(2)
The Grace of al-Ilm	103	(5)
Summary and Conclusion	108	(5)
Al-Saffar and al-Kulayni on the Imams and the Imamate: Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad	113	(35)
The Qummi/Ashari Connection to Twelver Traditionist Theology	114	(1)
The Theology of al-Kafi: Kitab al- Tawhid	115	(4)
Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad: Al-Kafi's Kitab al-Hujja	119	(2)
The Imamology in Basair and al-Kafi's Kitab al-Hujja: a Comparative Approach	121	(8)
Special Effects and Possessions Possessed by the Imams	129	(1)
Their Special Personages	130	(4)
The Unique Abilities of the Imams	134	(2)
Al-Kulayni's Excisions	136	(12)
Al-Kafi From Theology to Practice	148	(45)
The Practical Nature of al-Usul's Traditions	148	(10)
The Traditions of al-Furu as Qummi Discourse on Points of Practice	158	(2)
The Collection and Obligations of al-Khums	160	(5)
The Collection and Distribution of Alms	165	(3)
The Obligation and Conduct of Congregational Prayer	168	(2)
Overt Confrontation with Authority	170	(2)
Al-Amr and al-Nahy	172	(2)
The Permitted Scope of Personal Relations, and Confrontation, With Authority	174	(3)
The Implementation of al-Hudud During the Occultation	177	(1)
Judicial Arbitration in the Absence of the Imam	178	(3)
The Imams and al-Jawr in al-Kafi	181	(12)
Summary and Conclusions	193	(9)
Bibliography	202	(7)
Index of Quranic verses cited	209	(2)
Index	211