The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism

The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism

Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad

by Andrew J. Newman

320 pages· 2013· ISBN 9781136837128
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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

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