List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on the text; Part I. History of Orthodoxy: 1. Introduction; 2. Discourses of heresy I (800-850); 3. Discourses of heresy II (859-950); Part II. Heresy and Society: 4. Regionalism and topographies of heresy; 5. Ethnogenesis and heresy; 6. Politics: rebellion and heresy; 7. Religion and society; Part III. Unmaking Heresy: Orthodoxy as History-Writing: 8. Manâqib: narratives of orthodoxy I; 9. Masânîd: narratives of orthodoxy II; Part IV. The Formation of Classical Sunnism: 10. Consensus and heresy; 11. Conclusion; References; Index.
Offers an original account of the formation of medieval Sunnism, emphasising Islamic discourses of heresy and orthodoxy.
Ahmad Khan is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the American University in Cairo. He previously held positions at Oxford and Hamburg universities and was the Arcapita Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. His publications include Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage (2016). His research focuses on Islamic thought and history in the pre-modern and modern periods.
'In important parts of the Middle East and South Asia's vast Sunni
Muslim population, Islam and the school of practice initiated by
Abū Ḥanīfa have long been nearly synonymous. However, for the
medieval clerics who first spoke of 'Sunni Islam', Abū Ḥanīfa was a
heretic. This rich and careful study details how Sunni Islam
expanded to admit Abū Ḥanīfa and the broad diversity of thought and
practice found in the Muslim world today.' Jonathan A.C. Brown,
Georgetown University
'With mastery of a wide range of sources, clarity of expression and
methodological insight, Ahmad Khan guides us through the intricate
ways in which accusations of heresy were constructed during the
early Islamic period, the defensive reactions they provoked and how
such processes contributed to the emergence of classical Sunnism.'
Maribel Fierro, Spanish National Research Council
'This is a highly original and important study which challenges
many assumptions about how ideas around heresy and orthodoxy were
articulated by early Sunnis. The book is deeply researched, and its
nuanced arguments are supported by an impressively wide range of
sources. The conclusions have significant ramifications for the
field.' Harry Munt, University of York
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