The Words of the Imams - Al Shaykh Al Saduq Development of Twelver Shi i Hadith Literature

Zusatztext ‘This is an excellent book and an important contribution to the study of hadith and early Twelver Shi’ism. It is one of the few thoroughgoing analyses of an individual Imami author’s oeuvre, and it takes as its object an author whose work richly deserves to be discussed in detail.’ Informationen zum Autor George Warner is Research Associate in the study of West Asian Religions at the Centre for Religious Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Previously he was a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS, U.K. Zusammenfassung Ibn Babawayh – also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq – was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith . Writing within the first century after the vanishing of the twelfth imam, al-Saduq represents a pivotal moment in Twelver h adith literature, as this Shi'i community adjusted to a world without a visible imam and guide, a world wherein the imams could only be accessed through the text of their remembered words and deeds. George Warner’s study of al-Saduq’s work examines the formation of Shi'i hadith literature in light of these unique dynamics, as well as giving a portrait of an important but little-studied early Twelver thinker. Though almost all of al-Saduq’s writings are collections of h adith , Warner’s approach pays careful attention to how these texts are selected and presented to explore what they can reveal about their compiler, offering insight into al-Saduq’s ideas and suggesting new possibilities for the wider study of h adith .

Product details

• Authors: George Warner
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781838605605
• ISBN: 978-1-83860-560-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / Shi'a, Islamic Studies, Biography: religious & spiritual, Middle Eastern history, Biography: religious and spiritual, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy