abū al-jārūd is one of the leading figures of zaydis and the narrator of the significant books and traditions of imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) and imam al-bāqir (a.s.), who has received the attention of the imāmī rijālīs (biographers) and dignitaries. on one hand, the imāmī and sunnī rijālīs have weakened him and, on the other hand, he is known as the transmitter of many and sometimes important traditio...

The present study examines social history of the Graeco-Arabic translation movement from perspective Christian communities that participated in it. Special attention is given to Melkite and Nestorian translators active ʿAbbāsid Baghdad – late eighth-century translator al-Biṭrīq famous ninth-century Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq complex interactions between Melkites Nestorians, which involved both competitio...

dr. naṣr ḥāmid abū zayd is a forward-looking thinker, who has presented viewpoints on the qur’ānic sciences different from those of the earlier scholars. studies on abrogation is one of the areas that he has taken into consideration in his course of qur’ānic studies. however, this outlook has changed over time with the transformation of his thinking. by following the course of abū zayd’s studie...

in the abbasid era, chieftainship (niqābat) was a politico-religious institution with social functions. since the early periods of the samanids era, the alavids’ chieftainship in nayshābūr, capital of khurāsān, had been turned over to the ḥusaynī alavids of banū zubāra, but amīr nūḥ b. manṣūr sāmānī (ruled 366-378) handed over this post to a ḥasanī alavid, whose descendants became the hereditar...