In praise of the few : studies in Shiʻi thought and history /

In praise of the few : studies in Shiʻi thought and history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kohlberg, Etan, author.
Uniform title:	Works. Selections
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] ©2020
Description:	ix, 640 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Shii Islam: texts and studies, 2468-5879 ; volume 1
Subject:	Shīʻah -- History. Shīʻah -- Doctrines -- History. Shīʻah. Shīʻah -- Doctrines. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12673952

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Other authors / contributors:	Ehteshami, Amin, editor.
ISBN:	9789004406964 9004406964 9789004406971
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"In Praise of the Few: Studies in Shiʻi Thought and History is a selection of Etan Kohlberg's research on Shiʻi Islam over a period of fifty years. It includes previously published articles, revised dissertation chapters, and a full bibliography of the author's work. Divided into two parts, the collection begins with chapters from Kohlberg's Oxford doctoral dissertation (1971) and related articles that investigate Sunni and Shiʻi views on the Prophet's Companions and debates concerning the extent of their authority as sources of religious knowledge. Part Two traces the doctrinal and historical developments pertaining to various dimensions of Imāmī Shiʻi intellectual tradition such as theology, hadith, law and jurisprudence. and exegesis"--
Other form:	Online version: Kohlberg, Etan. In praise of the few. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004406971

Table of Contents:

Sunni views on the Prophet's Companions
Muʻtazilī views on the Companions
Some Imāmī Shiʻi views on the Companions
Imāmī Shiʻi views on the participants in the Battles of Camel and Ṣiffīn
The accepted Companions
The Companions as authorities
Some Zaydī views on the Companions
The term "rāfiḍa" in Imāmī Shiʻi usage
The evolution of the Shiʻa
Imam and community in the pre-Ghayba period
From Imāmiyya to ithnā ʻAshariyya
Early attestations of the term "ithnā ʻAshariyya"
The term "muḥaddath" in Twelver Shiʻism
In praise of the few
Taqiyya in Shiʻi theology and religion
ʻAlī b. Mūsā ibn Ṭāwūs and his polemic against Sunnism
Some Shiʻi views of the antediluvian world
Authoritative scriptures in early Imāmī Shiʻism
Vision and the imams
An unusual Shiʻi Isnād
al-Uṣūl al-arbaʻumiʼa
The Abū Baṣīr tradition: Qurʼanic verses on the merits of the Shiʻa
The development of the Imāmī Shiʻi doctrine of jihād
The position of the walad zinā in Imāmī Shiʻism
Aspects of Akhbārī thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.