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Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy from Part III - Unmaking Heresy: Orthodoxy as History Writing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
This chapter posits that the explosion of Manāqib works praising and defending Abu Hanifa was paramount to the full integration of Abu Hanifa and his followers within the broader coalition of Sunnism in the tenth-eleventh centuries. It provides the first comprehensive history of the Manāqib genre and analyses in extensive detail a new tenth-century Manāqib source. I contend that the dismissal (and neglect) of Manāqib works as pious hagiography is unwarranted and has resulted in a misreading of important developments in the formation of medieval Sunnism.
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