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Charismatic Community, The : Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. I. The principle of walāyah and the origins of the community
- Walāyah in the Islamic tradition
- The Ghadīr Khumm tradition: walāyah and the spiritual distinctions of ʻAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
- Walāyah, authority and religious community in the first civil war
- The Shiʻite community in the aftermath of the first civil war
- Pt. II. Walāyah, faith and the charismatic nature of Shiʻite identity
- Walāyah as the essence of religion: theological developments at the turn of the second Islamic century
- Membership in the Shiʻite community and salvation
- Predestination and the mythological origins of Shiʻite identity
- The charismatic nature and spiritual distinction of the Shiʻites
- Pt. III. Creating a community within a community
- Shiʻites and non-Shiʻites: the distinction between Imān and Islām
- Degrees of faith: establishing a hierarchy within the Shiʻite community
- "Rarer than red sulphur": women's identity in early Shiʻism
- Perforated boundaries: establishing two codes of conduct.