ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
The Shiʿi Imams played a key role in early Islam. Revered scholars descended from the Prophet Muḥammad, they posed an existential threat to the legitimacy of the ruling caliphs in the 8th and 9th century CE. Their leadership defined the quietist yet oppositional Imami Shiʿi community scattered throughout the Islamic empire. Imami Shiʿism was a key part of the turbulent thesis and antithesis which formed Islam, and it remains greatly influential until today. Remarkably, there is no comprehensive history of the Imamate. There are a number of reasons for this, central among which are that scholarship on Imami Shiʿism has approached it as a doctrinal and intellectual phenomenon. However,…
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