Full Description
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 favoured the narration of different bodies of the Imams' traditions
Contents
Chapter 1 The View from Baghdad; Chapter 2 The View from Baghdad; Chapter 3 Pockets of Believers; Chapter 4 Al-Barq? and the Beginnings of the Qumm?/Ash?ar? Association with the Traditions; Chapter 5 Al-?aff?r's Ba???ir al-Daraj?t; Chapter 6 Al-Kulayn?'s al-K?f?; Chapter 7 Al-?aff?r and al-Kulayn? on the Imams and the Imamate; Chapter 8 Al-K?f? From Theology to Practice; Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions;
