Author: Etan Kohlberg Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004406972 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 650
Book Description
In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʿi Thought and History is a selection of Etan Kohlberg’s research on Shiʿi 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 parts, the collection begins with chapters from Kohlberg’s Oxford doctoral dissertation (1971) and related articles that investigate Sunni and Shiʿi views on the Prophet’s Companions and debates concerning the extent of their authority as sources of religious knowledge. Part Two traces the doctrinal and historical developments pertaining to various dimensions of Imāmī Shiʿi intellectual tradition such as theology, hadith, law, jurisprudence, and exegesis.
Author: Teresa Bernheimer Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748682953 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 197
Book Description
The first social history of the 'Alids, in the crucial formative period from the Abbasid Revolution of 750 to the Seljuq period of 1100. It examines their rise from a religious point of view and as a social phenomenon, asking how this family attained and
Author: Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb Publisher: ISBN: Category : Islam Languages : en Pages : 968
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live.
Author: Etan Kohlberg
Author: Samuel Miklos Stern
Author: American Friends of the Middle East
Author: Teresa Bernheimer
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Author: Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author: Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
Author: American Friends of the Middle East. Library
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