On the origins of Shi'i Hadith

From: The Muslim World | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The origins of a specifically Shii collection of Hadith and the attendant emergence of a body of religio-legal norms is an area which has received little attention within the critical tradition of Western scholarship. This is despite the fact that the elaboration of Shi religio-legal norms was clearly of major significance in the evolution of a truly sectarian Shi ism.

In the following it will be argued that the first major impulse towards identifying a coherent and comprehensive set of Shii religio-legal norms distinct from those of the majority of Muslims occurred during the time of the ...

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