The Caliph and the Heretic

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Book

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xiv, 334 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note

Sean W. Anthony, Ph.D. (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is Assistant Professor of History at University of Oregon.

Readership

All those interested in religious history, the history of Islamic Late Antiquity, the history of Shi'ism, and the history of Islamic sectarianism.

Reviews

"... an exhaustive work carried out according to an accurate critical methodology."
Rosanna Budelli in Islamochristiana 38 (2012).

List of Table
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. Ibn Sabaʾ and the Sayfian Corpus
Chapter Two. Sayf ibn ʿUmar and the Sabaʾīya (I): The Caliphate of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Chapter Three. Sayf ibn ʿUmar and the Sabaʾīya (II): ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib the Battle of the Camel
Excursus: The Sayfian Corpus in the Riwāya of Naṣr ibn Muzāḥim
Chapter Four. Ibn Sabaʾ and the Heresiographers
Chapter Five. The Execution of Ibn Sabaʾ
Chapter Six. The Parousia of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Excursus 1: ʿAlī in the Clouds
Excursus 2: The Letter of ʿAlī Given to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb al-Hamdānī
Chapter Seven. The Sabaʾīya of the Umayyad Period
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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