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This book is an examination of the traditions and legends concerning early Islam's first and most infamous heretic, the Yemenite Jew known as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ. Tracing the evolution and transformation of the many stories and narratives about Ibn Sabaʾ as adapted by Sunnī and Shīʿī scholars alike, this work attempts for the first time to give a comprehensive account of the formation of the image of Ibn Sabaʾ as the quintessential heretic of Islam's early years. It also offers a new interpretation of the historical importance and beliefs of Ibn Sabaʾ and those early Shīʿa reviled as his followers, the Sabaʾīya. The end result is a revolutionary, new portrait of Shīʿite origins and early Islamic sectarianism.
Contents
List of Table
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. Ibn Sabaʾ and the Sayfian Corpus
Chapter Two. Sayf ibn ʿUmar and the Sabaʾīya (I): The Caliphate of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Chapter Three. Sayf ibn ʿUmar and the Sabaʾīya (II): ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib the Battle of the Camel
Excursus: The Sayfian Corpus in the Riwāya of Naṣr ibn Muzāḥim
Chapter Four. Ibn Sabaʾ and the Heresiographers
Chapter Five. The Execution of Ibn Sabaʾ
Chapter Six. The Parousia of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Excursus 1: ʿAlī in the Clouds
Excursus 2: The Letter of ʿAlī Given to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb al-Hamdānī
Chapter Seven. The Sabaʾīya of the Umayyad Period
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
