Scripturalist Islam : : the history and doctrines of the Akhbari Shii school / / by Robert Gleave.

The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a rejection of the rational exegetical techniques which...

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Superior document:Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v. 72
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 72.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Akhbari-Usuli dispute and the early "Akhbari" school
  • Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi and the formation of the Akhbari school
  • Astarabadi's legal thought
  • Astarabadi's theological and philosophical thought
  • The spread of Akhbarism after Astarabadi
  • Defining the Akhbari-Usuli conflict
  • Akhbari Quranic interpretation
  • Sunna and the Akhbar in Akhbari jurisprudence
  • Akhbari hermeneutics
  • Conclusions.