The Heirs of the Prophet
This substantially revised version of a dissertation completed at the School of Oriental andAfrican Studies in 1990 focuses on the disciples (rijal) of the Imams in the Twelver Shiite tradition, arguing that they developed, through the routinization of charisma, a distinct type of religious authori...
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oai:doaj.org-article:9afda8b56c264cb19f34eb911a0dcb1a2021-12-02T19:23:16ZThe Heirs of the Prophet10.35632/ajis.v25i3.14582690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/9afda8b56c264cb19f34eb911a0dcb1a2008-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1458https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This substantially revised version of a dissertation completed at the School of Oriental andAfrican Studies in 1990 focuses on the disciples (rijal) of the Imams in the Twelver Shiite tradition, arguing that they developed, through the routinization of charisma, a distinct type of religious authority in the eighth and ninth centuries based on their special relationship with the Imams, but to some extent independent of them. It investigates an important chapter in Twelver Shiite religious history while touching on questions of religious authority and orthodoxy in Islam that remain poorly described in scholarship to date. The work includes two chapters on aspects of religious authority in classical Islam, two on the Imams’ disciples and the roles they played, and one on how these disciples were portrayed in later biographical texts ... Devin J. StewartInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 25, Iss 3 (2008) |
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This substantially revised version of a dissertation completed at the School
of Oriental andAfrican Studies in 1990 focuses on the disciples (rijal) of the
Imams in the Twelver Shiite tradition, arguing that they developed, through
the routinization of charisma, a distinct type of religious authority in the
eighth and ninth centuries based on their special relationship with the
Imams, but to some extent independent of them. It investigates an important
chapter in Twelver Shiite religious history while touching on questions of
religious authority and orthodoxy in Islam that remain poorly described in
scholarship to date.
The work includes two chapters on aspects of religious authority in classical
Islam, two on the Imams’ disciples and the roles they played, and one
on how these disciples were portrayed in later biographical texts ...
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