The Alid Imams as Authors (Dr Teresa Bernheimer)
2018-02-07 17:15 - 18:45 | IAIS Building/LT1
Besides the many legal and religious traditions going back to the Shiâ€˜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« á¹¬Älib), 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 Shiâ€˜ism.http://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/?event=7944
