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Author Gleave, R. (Robert)

Title Scripturalist Islam : the history and doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʻī school / by Robert Gleave
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 339 pages)
Series Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 72
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 72. 0169-8729
Contents The Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute and the early "Akhbārī" school -- Muḥammad Amīn al-Astarābādī and the formation of the Akhbārī school -- Astarābādī's legal thought -- Astarābādī's theological and philosophical thought -- The spread of Akhbarism after Astarābādī -- Defining the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī conflict -- Akhbārī Qurʼanic interpretation -- Sunna and the Akhbār in Akhbārī jurisprudence -- Akhbārī hermeneutics -- Conclusions
Summary Akhbar Shi'ism was "scripturalist" in that Akhbar's believed that all questions of theology and law could be found in the texts of revelation. There was no need, they believed, to turn to alternative sources (such as reason or inspiration)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-333) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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SUBJECT al-Astarābādī, Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Muḥammad Ṥarīf. idsbb
Subject Akhbārīyah -- History
Akhbārīyah -- Doctrines
Shīʿah -- Doctrines.
Shīʿah -- History
Islamic law.
Uṣūlīyah.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Shi'a.
Akhbārīyah
Islamic law
Shīʻah
Shīʻah -- Doctrines
Uṣūlīyah
Akhbāriyya
Islamische Theologie
Schiiten
Imamiten
Akhbari.
Schiiten -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
Aḫbāriyya.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007281457
ISBN 9789047421627
9047421620
1281926477
9781281926470
9786611926472
661192647X