The Formative Period of Twelver Shicism: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad By Andrew J. Newman
2010 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0415616360 | PDF | 6 MB
Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution favoured the narration of different bodies of the Imams' traditions