Zaydī Theology in Yemen

This chapter reviews Zaydī theology in Yemen, from the period before and after the unification of the Yemeni and the Caspian imamates to theologians from the ninth/fifteenth century. It traces the foundation of the Zaydī imamate in the northern highlands of Yemen by Imam al-Hādī ilā l-Ḥaqq, and how...

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Autores: Ansari, Hassan, Schmidtke, Sabine, Thiele, Jan
Tipo de recurso: otro
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:digitalcsic_::ae8424b71deaed141855f2e0123a16f1
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/174368
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Zaydī theology
Yemen
Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Salām al-Buhlūlī
al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ
Bahshamite theology
Muʿtazilism
Imam al-Manṣūr bi-llāh
Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī
ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī
Theology
Islam
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Sumario:This chapter reviews Zaydī theology in Yemen, from the period before and after the unification of the Yemeni and the Caspian imamates to theologians from the ninth/fifteenth century. It traces the foundation of the Zaydī imamate in the northern highlands of Yemen by Imam al-Hādī ilā l-Ḥaqq, and how the Yemeni Zaydīs developed a canon of doctrinal writings of the Imams which remained authoritative over the coming centuries. It considers the role played by Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Salām al-Buhlūlī in the intellectual development of Yemen’s theological landscape, as well as the legacy of al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ with respect to Bahshamite theology in the country. It also examines the continuity of Bahshamite theology from the seventh/thirteenth century and concludes with a discussion of the emergence of growing opposition among the Zaydīs of Yemen against Muʿtazilism in general and the theological views of the Bahshamiyya in particular.