The Shīʿa in Iraqi Heresiography : The Structure and Transmission of the Material up to al-Ashʿarī (d.324/935)

Abstract

The book addresses the presentation of the Shiʿa in the theological-doxographical literature of Iraq up to the early fourth century of Islam. Understanding doxographies primarily as textual products of third-century kalam circles, it provides historians with a thorough account of the likely provenance and transmission of this important body of source material, as well as of the particular images of the early Shiʿa it constructs.