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Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological
developments during the Marwanid period (64/684--132/750), focusing
on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly
network extended across several generations and significantly
influenced the development of the Islamic faith. Umayyad qadois,
who represented the intersection of religious authority and
imperial power, were particularly important. This book challenges
the long-standing paradigm that the emerging Muslim faith was
shaped by religious dissenters who were hostile to the Umayyads. A
prosopographical analysis of Umayyad-era scholars demonstrates that
piety and opposition were not necessarily synonymous. Reputable
scholars served as qadois, tutors and advisors to Umayyad caliphs
and governors. Their religious credentials were untarnished by
their association with the Umayyads and they appear prominently in
later hoadith collections and fiqh works. This historiographical
study demonstrates that excessive reliance on al-Toabari's
chronicle has distorted the image of the Umayyads. Alternatively,
biographical sources produced by later hoadith scholars reveal a
rich tradition of Umayyad-era religious scholarship that undermines
al-Toabari's assumptions. Offering a better understanding of early
Islamic religious development, this book is a valuable resource for
students and researchers in the fields of Islamic history, Islamic
legal studies and Arabic historiography.
Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological
developments during the Marwanid period (64/684--132/750), focusing
on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly
network extended across several generations and significantly
influenced the development of the Islamic faith. Umayyad qadois,
who represented the intersection of religious authority and
imperial power, were particularly important. This book challenges
the long-standing paradigm that the emerging Muslim faith was
shaped by religious dissenters who were hostile to the Umayyads. A
prosopographical analysis of Umayyad-era scholars demonstrates that
piety and opposition were not necessarily synonymous. Reputable
scholars served as qadois, tutors and advisors to Umayyad caliphs
and governors. Their religious credentials were untarnished by
their association with the Umayyads and they appear prominently in
later hoadith collections and fiqh works. This historiographical
study demonstrates that excessive reliance on al-Toabari's
chronicle has distorted the image of the Umayyads. Alternatively,
biographical sources produced by later hoadith scholars reveal a
rich tradition of Umayyad-era religious scholarship that undermines
al-Toabari's assumptions. Offering a better understanding of early
Islamic religious development, this book is a valuable resource for
students and researchers in the fields of Islamic history, Islamic
legal studies and Arabic historiography.
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