Imāmate in Khārijism and Ibāḍism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Imāmate in Khārijism and Ibāḍism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Gaiser, Adam R.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062266
Doc. NO	:	ALei2663
Main Entry	:	Gaiser, Adam R.
Title & Author	:	Imāmate in Khārijism and Ibāḍism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Gaiser, Adam R.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,881 words)
Abstract	:	The nature of the Islamic sources for the early Muslim groups that were retroactively labelled Khārijites (khawārij) makes obtaining an accurate portrait of Khārijite notions of leadership difficult. On the one hand, Islamic sources use earlier Khārijite works as the basis of their narratives, but later (proto-Sunnī and proto-Shīʿa) Muslim author-editors remained hostile to the Khārijite groups they wrote about. On the other hand, both Khārijite authors and the medieval Muslim author-editors who preserved their writings were not interested in “history” in the modern sense; rather,
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2663.pdf