Professor Najam Haider: 1 book
The Origins of the Shī'a
Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kūfa
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
The Sunni-Shi'a schism is often framed as a dispute over the identity of the successor to Muhammad. In reality, however, this fracture only materialized a century later in the important southern Iraqi city of Kufa (present-day Najaf). This book explores the birth and development of Shi'i identity....
