By Steven Judd

ISBN-10: 0415844975

ISBN-13: 9780415844970

Religious students and the Umayyads analyzes felony and theological advancements through the Marw?nid interval (64/684--132/750), targeting spiritual students who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly community prolonged throughout a number of generations and considerably motivated the improvement of the Islamic religion. Umayyad q?dò?s, who represented the intersection of non secular authority and imperial strength, have been relatively very important.



This e-book demanding situations the long-standing paradigm that the rising Muslim religion used to be formed by way of non secular dissenters who have been antagonistic to the Umayyads. A prosopographical research of Umayyad-era students demonstrates that piety and competition weren't inevitably synonymous. respected students served as q?dò?s, tutors and advisors to Umayyad caliphs and governors. Their non secular credentials have been untarnished via their organization with the Umayyads and so they seem prominently in later hòad?th collections and fiqh works.



This historiographical examine demonstrates that over the top reliance on al-Tòabar?’s chronicle has distorted identical to the Umayyads. on the other hand, biographical assets produced by way of later hòad?th students show a wealthy culture of Umayyad-era spiritual scholarship that undermines al-Tòabar?’s assumptions. supplying a greater realizing of early Islamic spiritual improvement, this publication is a useful source for college kids and researchers within the fields of Islamic historical past, Islamic criminal experiences and Arabic historiography.

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