Encountering the Internal Other: Non-Shiʿi Family Members among the Imami Shiʿa

This article looks at the figure of the extreme anti-Shiʿi, the nāṣib, as treated by early Imami Shiʿi discourse during the seventh–ninth centuries CE. Several stories are studied in which the nāṣib is encountered as a problematic internal other within Shiʿi family structures. It is argued that such...

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Main Author: Hayes, Edmund 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 280-301
Further subjects:B Twelvers
B pre-Occultation
B Procreation
B Sectarianism
B nāṣib
B Marriage
B ritual purity
B communal boundaries
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