The Alid Imams as Authors (Dr Teresa Bernheimer)
Besides the many legal and religious traditions going back to the Shi‘ite Imams, early Islamic historiography also preserves a wide variety of other kinds of works ascribed to the Imams. They include a great variety of topics and genres, from sermons and sayings (best known is the Nahj al-BalÄgha of Ê¿AlÄ« b. AbÄ« ṬÄlib), to poetry, to works on medicine (such as the RisÄlat al-dhahabÄ«ya by Ê¿AlÄ« al-Riá¸Ä), divination and astrology. The talk explores the context and reasons for ascribing particular works to the Imams, and the role these ascriptions played in the historical development of Shi‘ism.
| An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies lecture | |
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| Date | 7 February 2018 |
| Time | 17:15 to 18:45 |
| Place | IAIS Building/LT1 |
| Provider | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
| Speaker(s) | Teresa Bernheimer is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. From 2009-2017 she taught Early Islamic History at SOAS, University of London. Educated at SOAS (BA) and Oxford (M.Phil, D.Phil) |
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IAIS Building/LT1