Edmund Hayes

Agents of the Hidden Imam

Forging Twelver Shi'ism, 850-950 CE

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reconstructing the roles and careers of key actors in the drama of early Occultation politics and the emergence of the first leaders of Twelver Shi?ism, this book demonstrates how they established the doctrines and institutions of Twelver Shi?ism, the dominant branch of Shi?i Islam in the world today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108994989
• ISBN-10: 1108994989
• Artikelnr.: 70200090

Autorenporträt

Edmund Hayes is researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He has authored numerous articles at the intersection between the intellectual, religious, and social history of early Islam, including on the institutions of the Shi¿i Imamate, Islamic revenues, charity and taxation, excommunication, ethnicity and gender and sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The rise of the agents in the late Imamate (830-874 CE); 2. The crisis before the crisis. The feud between Imamic contenders and the power of the agents; 3. Crisis! The mother, the brother, the concubine and the politics of inheritance; 4. The agents of the N
iya in the era of perplexity; 5. The creation of an envoy: The rise of Ab
Jäfar al-
Amr
; 6. Rise and fall: Ibn Raw
, Shalmagh
n
, and rise and collapse of the envoyship; Conclusion.