Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. General Editor’s Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Imāmīya
    1. 1. How Did the Early Shî‘a Become Sectarian?
    2. 2. Only the Man of God is Human: Theology and Mystical Anthropology According to Early Imāmī Exegesis (Aspects of Twelver Imamology IV)
    3. 3. The Death of al-Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī and Early Shī‘ī Views of the Imamate
    4. 4. The Hāshimiyyāt of al-Kumayt and Hāshimī Shi‘ism
    5. 5. The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi‘ism: a Sociohistorical Perspective
    6. 6. The Four Sufarā’ of the Twelfth Imām: On the Formative Period of the Twelver Shī‘a
    7. 7. Some Remarks on the Imāmī Firaq Literature
  10. Ghulāt
    1. 8. The Development of the Term Ghulāt in Muslim Literature with Special Reference to the Kaysāniyya
    2. 9. Bayān b. Sam‘ān and the Bayāniyya: Shī‘te Extremists of Umayyad Iraq
  11. Zaydīya
    1. 10. The Kāmilīya: On the Genesis of a Heresiographical Tradition
    2. 11. The Early History of Zaydī Shī‘ism in Daylamān and Gīlān
  12. Ismā‘īlīya
    1. 12. The Earliest Ismā‘īlīs
    2. 13. Ismā‘īlīs and Qarmaṭians
    3. 14. Methods and Forms of the Earliest Ismā‘īlī Da‘wa
  13. ‘Abbāsids
    1. 15. On the Meaning of the ‘Abbasid Call to al-Riḍā
    2. 16. The ‘Abbasid Dawla: an Essay on the Concept of Revolution in Early Islam
    3. 17. The Religious Policy of the ‘Abbāsid Caliph al-Ma’mūn
  14. General Index