{"product_id":"religious-scholars-and-the-umayyads","title":"Religious Scholars and the Umayyads","description":"\u003cp\u003eReligious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwānid period (64\/684--132\/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly network extended across several generations and significantly influenced the development of the Islamic faith. Umayyad \u003ci\u003eqādòī\u003c\/i\u003es, who represented the intersection of religious authority and imperial power, were particularly important. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the long-standing paradigm that the emerging Muslim faith was shaped by religious dissenters who were hostile to the Umayyads. A prosopographical analysis of Umayyad-era scholars demonstrates that piety and opposition were not necessarily synonymous. Reputable scholars served as \u003ci\u003eqādòī\u003c\/i\u003es, tutors and advisors to Umayyad caliphs and governors. Their religious credentials were untarnished by their association with the Umayyads and they appear prominently in later \u003ci\u003ehòadīth\u003c\/i\u003e collections and \u003ci\u003efiqh\u003c\/i\u003e works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis historiographical study demonstrates that excessive reliance on al-Tòabarī’s chronicle has distorted the image of the Umayyads. Alternatively, biographical sources produced by later \u003ci\u003ehòadīth\u003c\/i\u003e scholars reveal a rich tradition of Umayyad-era religious scholarship that undermines al-Tòabarī’s assumptions. Offering a better understanding of early Islamic religious development, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of Islamic history, Islamic legal studies and Arabic historiography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262563111256,"sku":"9780415844970","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415844970.jpg?v=1769049925","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/religious-scholars-and-the-umayyads","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}