The Shīʿa in Iraqi Heresiography: The Structure and Transmission of the Material Up to Al-Ashʿarī (D.324/935)

by James Weaver

This book addresses the presentation of the Shīʿa in the extant theological-doxographical literature of Iraq up to the early fourth century of Islam. Understanding doxographies primarily as textual products of third-century kalām circles, it provides historians with a more thorough account of the likely provenance and transmission of this important body of source material, as well as of the particular images of the early Shīʿa...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110620537
• ISBN13: 9783110620535
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 813 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary