TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haider,Najam Iftikhar
TI  - The origins of the Shīʻa: identity, ritual, and sacred space in eighth-century Kūfa 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9781139128636
AV  - BP192.7.K75 H35 2011eb
U1  - 297.8/20956747 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Shīʿah
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Kūfah
KW  - History
KW  - Chiisme
KW  - Irak
KW  - Kūfa
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - Shi'a
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - Kūfah (Iraq)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Narratives and Methods. Kufa and the Classical Narratives of Early Shi'ism -- Confronting the Source Barrier: A New Methodology -- pt. 2. Case Studies. In the Name of God: The Basmala -- Curses and Invocations: The Qunut in the Ritual Prayer -- Drinking Matters: The Islamic Debate over Prohibition -- pt. 3. The Emergence of Shi'ism. Dating Sectarianism: Early Zaydism and the Politics of Perpetual Revolution -- The Problem of the Ambiguous Transmitter: Ritual and the Allocation of Identity -- The Mosque and the Procession: Sacred Spaces and the Construction of Community
N2  - The Sunni-Shi'a schism is often framed as a dispute over the identity of the successor to Muhammad. In reality, however, this fracture only materialized a century later in the important southern Iraqi city of Kufa (present-day Najaf). This book explores the birth and development of Shi'i identity. Through a critical analysis of legal texts, whose provenance has only recently been confirmed, the study shows how the early Shi'a carved out independent religious and social identities through specific ritual practices and within separate sacred spaces. In this way, the book addresses two seminal controversies in the study of early Islam, namely the dating of Kufan Shi'i identity and the means by which the Shi'a differentiated themselves from mainstream Kufan society. This is an important, original and path-breaking book that marks a significant development in the study of early Islamic society
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