A Bibliographical Survey of Early Shiite Literature
Vol.1
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-01-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1851683313
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781851683314
Product Description:
This comprehensive survey is the only text available to give short and accessible summaries of the life and achievements of over 200 hundred philosophers and theologians from the strict Shi'i school of Islam.
Preface
This study attempts to locate and identify the written heritage of the
Ima¯mite Shı¯‘ite branch of Islam in the first three centuries of its history.
The beginning of the research goes back many years to a festschrift paper
I wrote on the surviving remnants of a book ascribed to ‘Alı¯ in early
Islamic sources. The article remained unpublished since the festschrift
itself, for which the piece was originally intended, was never published.
The research, however, encouraged me to embark on a more
comprehensive venture encompassing other works of early Ima¯mite
Shı¯‘ism as a supplement to the relevant chapter of Fuat Sezgin’s Geschichte
des arabischen Schrifttums 1: 524–52. The present study has, however, a
shorter time frame as it only covers the first three centuries of Shı¯‘ite
history, divided, as presented in the two volumes of the present work, into
five periods covering from the time of ‘Alı¯ to the end of the Minor
Occultation (329 ah/941 ad). A final chapter will attempt a general
evaluation of the entire corpus.
The beginning of specifically Shı¯‘ite literature can be traced to the
late Umayyad period with a number of anti-Umayyad sectarian
pamphlets and a book. Already by then, some transmitters of adı¯th,
Shı¯‘ites included, had started to keep written records of narratives they
had heard from their teachers
Vol.1
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2004-01-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1851683313
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781851683314
Product Description:
This comprehensive survey is the only text available to give short and accessible summaries of the life and achievements of over 200 hundred philosophers and theologians from the strict Shi'i school of Islam.
Preface
This study attempts to locate and identify the written heritage of the
Ima¯mite Shı¯‘ite branch of Islam in the first three centuries of its history.
The beginning of the research goes back many years to a festschrift paper
I wrote on the surviving remnants of a book ascribed to ‘Alı¯ in early
Islamic sources. The article remained unpublished since the festschrift
itself, for which the piece was originally intended, was never published.
The research, however, encouraged me to embark on a more
comprehensive venture encompassing other works of early Ima¯mite
Shı¯‘ism as a supplement to the relevant chapter of Fuat Sezgin’s Geschichte
des arabischen Schrifttums 1: 524–52. The present study has, however, a
shorter time frame as it only covers the first three centuries of Shı¯‘ite
history, divided, as presented in the two volumes of the present work, into
five periods covering from the time of ‘Alı¯ to the end of the Minor
Occultation (329 ah/941 ad). A final chapter will attempt a general
evaluation of the entire corpus.
The beginning of specifically Shı¯‘ite literature can be traced to the
late Umayyad period with a number of anti-Umayyad sectarian
pamphlets and a book. Already by then, some transmitters of adı¯th,
Shı¯‘ites included, had started to keep written records of narratives they
had heard from their teachers
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