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Condizione: New. 2017. Paperback. . . . . .

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Brossura. Condizione: nuovo. Pages: 224 p. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2017. SUMMARY About a century before the four canonical books of the Shi'a were composed, Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Barqi (d. 888 or 894 CE), a scholar from the city of Qum, compiled a large collection of Imami traditions embracing all aspects of religious life, from cosmogony and cosmology to the minutest details of daily life. This compilation, of which only ten percent has come down to us, forms one of the earliest Shi'i texts extant, and is the basis for Vilozny's delineation of the Shīʽī worldview in this formative, pre-Twelver era. Shi'ī ideology, the author argues, did not grow in a vacuum but resulted from the fusion of Islamic Arab elements with pre-Islamic, mythic and gnostic traditions. The book discusses at length three fundamental notions which permeate every part of al-Barqi's work: the Shi'a are God's elect; an eternal fierce battle is waged between good and evil on both the universal and individual levels; and the history of humankind, from before creation to the end of time, was predetermined by God. As shown by the author, the Shi'i attempt to accommodate all three ideas within its world perception often resulted in glaring contradictions to which only partial solutions could be provided at the time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Table of the 12 Imams Part I: Background Al-Barqi Life and Work Part II: Worldview Election Predestination and its Deterministic and Dualistic Implications Part III: The Literary Genre: Two Unique Sub-books of Kitab al-mahasin The Numerical Organization of hadith a Rule and its Exceptions Between Law and Doctrine the 'ilal Genre Final Thoughts Bibliography Index. ISBN: 978-2-503-56090-8. Paperback --.…