ABSTRACT
Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution favoured the narration of different bodies of the Imams' traditions
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Al-Ṣaffār and al-Kulaynī on the Imams and the Imamate
Twelver Theology Between Qum and Baghdad
