The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad - Hardback

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

• | Author: Andrew J. Newman
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0700712771
• | ISBN-13: 9780700712779