RT Article
T1 The Parting of Ways between ʿAlid Shiʿism and Abbasid Shiʿism: An Analysis of the Missives between the Caliph al-Manṣūr and Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya
JF Journal of Abbasid Studies
VO 6
IS 2
SP 209
OP 227
A1 Tor, Deborah G.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1698659318
AB The Abbasid Revolution rode to power on a religious ideology based upon ʿAlī’s legitimacy and the Abbasid Muḥammad b. ʿAlī’s supposed appointment as imam by ʿAlī’s grandson Abū Hāshim. In the wake of the Revolution, however, the differences between the Hāshimiyya and purely ʿAlid branches of the proto-Shiʿa came to a head. This article demonstrates that the pivotal theological turning point occurred in the year 145/762, as a result of the revolt of the Ḥasanid Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya. The article’s close reading of the arguments adduced in the purported correspondence between the two sides, preserved uniquely in al-Ṭabarī’s chronicle, reveals why in the wake of this revolt the Abbasids ultimately found the legitimating theology of their original daʿwa to be untenable.
K1 Abbasid Caliphate
K1 Hāshimiyya
K1 Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya
K1 Shiʿism
K1 ahl al-ḥadīth
K1 al-Manṣūr
DO 10.1163/22142371-12340049