The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism : Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad - Culture and Civilisation in the Middle East

Newman, Andrew J

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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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Book information

ISBN:	9780700712779
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	03 Nov 2000
DEWEY:	297.1248
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	222
Weight:	440g
Height:	216mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	19mm