Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on transliteration
- Note on dating systems
- Glossary
- 1 The development of the genre
- 2 The caliph al-Maʾmūn
- 3 The Imam ʿAlī al-Riḍā
- 4 The Ḥadīth-scholar Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal
- 5 The renunciant Bishr al-Ḥāfī
- Conclusions
- Appendix: The circumstances of ʿAlī al-Riḍā's death
- Bibliography
- Index
Note on dating systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on transliteration
- Note on dating systems
- Glossary
- 1 The development of the genre
- 2 The caliph al-Maʾmūn
- 3 The Imam ʿAlī al-Riḍā
- 4 The Ḥadīth-scholar Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal
- 5 The renunciant Bishr al-Ḥāfī
- Conclusions
- Appendix: The circumstances of ʿAlī al-Riḍā's death
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Classical Arabic BiographyThe Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun, pp. xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000