Twelver Shiism : : Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722 / / Andrew J. Newman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Newman, Andrew J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys : NEIS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

Charts the history and development of one of the most enduring branches of Shi'ismAs many as 40 different Shi`i groups existed in the 9th and 10th centuries yet only 3 forms have survived. Why is Twelver Shi`ism one of them?As the established faith in modern Iran, the majority faith in Iraq and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Shiism fragmented: the faith and the faithful from the seventh to the ninth century
• 2 Bereft of a leader: the early traditionists and the beginnings of doctrine and practice
• 3 The challenge of 'the Uncertainty'
• 4 Majority and minority: rationalism on the defensive in the later Buyid period
• 5 Betwixt and between: the Twelvers and the Turks
• 6 The Mongol and Ilkhanid periods: the rise and limits of the school of al-Hilla
• 7 The severest of challenges
• 8 Shiism in the sixteenth century: the limits of power (and influence)
• 9 The past rediscovered and the future assured: Shiism in the seventeenth century
• Epilogue
• Appendix I. Scholars by region: fifth-twelfth Islamic centuries/ eleventh-eighteenth centuries ad
• Appendix II. Manuscript copies of key Twelver Shii written works, sixth-thirteenth Islamic centuries/twelfth-nineteenth centuries ad
• Appendix III. Selected Safawid period rijal works
• Appendix IV. Shuruh/Hawashi of key Twelver works, sixth-twelfth Islamic centuries/twelfth-eighteenth centuries ad
• Bibliography
• Index