Shi'ismEtan Kohlberg . Acknowledgements. . . General Editor's Preface. . . Introduction. . 1. How Did the Early Shi'a Become Sectarian?. 3. 2. Only the Man of God is Human: Theology and Mystical Anthropology According to Early Imami Exegesis (Aspects of Twelver Imamology IV). 17. 3. The Death of al-Husayn b. 'Ali and Early Shi'i Views of the Imamate. 41. 4. The Hashimiyyat of al-Kumayt and Hashimi Shi'ism. 87. 5. The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi'ism: a Sociohistorical Perspective. 109. 6. The Four Sufara' of the Twelfth Imam: On the Formative Period of the Twelver Shi'a. 135. 7. Some Remarks on the Imami Firaq Literature. 153. 8. The Development of the Term Ghulat in Muslim Literature with Special Reference to the Kaysaniyya. 169. 9. Bayan b. Sam'an and the Bayaniyya: Shi'ite Extremists of Umayyad Iraq. 195. 10. The Kamiliya: On the Genesis of a Heresiographical Tradition. 209. 11. The Early History of Zaydi Shi'ism in Daylaman and Gilan. 221. 12. The Earliest Isma'ilis. 235. 13. Isma'ilis and Qarmatians. 267. 14. Methods and Forms of the Earliest Isma'ili Da'wa. 277. 15. On the Meaning of the 'Abbasid Call to al-Rida. 291. 16. The 'Abbasid Dawla: an Essay on the Concept of Revolution in Early Islam. 309. 17. The Religious Policy of the 'Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun. 333. . General Index. 355. |
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