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  title info:
    title: Muslims, scholars, soldiers
    sub title: the origin and elaboration of the Ibādī imāmate traditions
  title info:
    title: Origin and elaboration of the Ibādī imāmate traditions
  name:
    name part: Gaiser, Adam R.
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages)
  abstract: A study of the origin and development of the Ibadi Imamate ideal into its medieval Arabian and North African articulations, this study traces the distinctive features of the Ibadi imama to precedents among the early Kharijites, Rashidun Caliphs and pre-Islamic Arabs. Using the four "states of religion (masalik al-din) as an organizing principle for its chapters, the book examines the four associated Imam-types that are appropriate to such states - the Imam al-Zuhur (Imam of Manifestation), Imam al-Difa'a (Imam of Defense), Imam al-Shari (the "Seller Imam who triumphed over his enemies or "sold himself to God in the attempt) and Imam al-Kitman (Imam of Secrecy) - and locates each Imam-type within a trajectory of Ibadi development. Some distinctive features of the Ibadi Imamate tradition, such as the shari Imam who selflessly fought for the establishment of the Ibadi polity, are shown to be rooted in the early Kharijite martyrdom narratives that were appropriated by the Ibadiyya and later transformed into systematic doctrines. Still others, such as the "weak Imam who accepted provisional authority under the control of the 'ulama' hearken back to pre-Islamic patterns of limited authority that subsequently found their way into early Islamic political norms. Working from a perspective that challenges the exceptional interpretation of Kharijite and Ibadite doctrine and practice, this study seeks to root much of Ibadi political theory in the same early traditions of Islamic political practice that later provided legitimacy to Sunni Muslim political theorists. The result is a historically grounded and complex presentation of the development of political doctrine among the sole remaining relative of the early Kharijites. -- Publisher description.
  table of contents: Introduction ---- Imām al-zuhūr --- Imām al-kitmān --- The shārī imām --- Imām al-difā', imām al-da'īf, and community ---- Conclusion.
  note: Adam R. Gaiser.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ibadites
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Imamate
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Doctrines
  subject:
    topic: Religion and state
  subject:
    topic: Imāmat
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Doctrines
  subject:
    topic: Religion et État
  subject:
    topic: Ibāḍites
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Islam
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Ibadites
  subject:
    topic: Imamate
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Doctrines
  subject:
    topic: Religion and state
  classification: BP195.I3 G35 2010eb
  classification: 297.8/33
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    title info:
      title: Muslims, scholars, soldiers
    name:
      name part: Gaiser, Adam R., 1971-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
    identifier: (DLC) 2009042620
    identifier: (OCoLC)456445988
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    title info:
      title: American Academy of Religion academy series
  identifier: 9780199780686
  identifier: 0199780684
  identifier: 9780199738939
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 101101
    record change date: 20260318184533.9
    record identifier: in00005706230
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng