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:: Volume 1, Issue 56 (winter 2024) ::
islamhistory 2024, 1(56): 35-52 Back to browse issues page
Maʿāṣim al-Hudā: An Early Refutation of al-ʿUthmāniyya by al-Jāḥiẓ and the Socio-Political Context of Its Composition
Ahmad Ebrahimi zade , Mahdi Mojtahedi * , Hamidreza Sanaei
Abstract:   (46 Views)
Several refutations have been written against al-ʿUthmāniyya by al-Jāḥiẓ, a work that denied the Imamate and virtues of ʿAlī (peace be upon him). Among the oldest of these refutations is Maʿāṣim al-Hudā wa-al-Iṣābah fī Tafḍīl ʿAlī ʿalā al-Ṣaḥābah by Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī (d. after 411 CE), a work over a thousand years old. Only the second half of its manuscript is currently available, and it has remained neglected and unpublished. In this study, through introducing this work, explaining its place within al-Kirmānī’s corpus, and determining its date of composition, an attempt is made—using a descriptive-analytical method—to answer the question: What influence did the political–social conditions have on the writing of this book? It appears that the denial of the Fāṭimid claim of descent from ʿAlī (peace be upon him) by the Abbasid caliphate—which had been endorsed by certain Sunni and Shiʿi scholars—prompted al-Kirmānī to compose four books on the Imamate. Maʿāṣim al-Hudā is one of these works. Although it adopts a moderate approach, contrary to the assumption found in some sources, it does not contain a chapter on the virtues of the first caliph
Keywords: al-Jāḥiẓ, al-ʿUthmāniyya, Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī, Maʿāṣim al-Hudā, codicology.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2024/09/30 | Accepted: 2024/12/15
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Ebrahimi zade A, Mojtahedi M, Sanaei H. Maʿāṣim al-Hudā: An Early Refutation of al-ʿUthmāniyya by al-Jāḥiẓ and the Socio-Political Context of Its Composition. islamhistory 2024; 1 (56) :35-52
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