Affiliation:
1. the École Pratique des Hautes Études
Abstract
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi examines the heresiographic sources, both Sunnite and so-called moderate-Shi’ite, that accuse the first Shi’ites of ideological ‘extremism’ due, firstly, to their alleged messianism, and, secondly, and somewhat complementarily, to their more-or-less-straightforward divinisation of their imām or ‘spiritual leader’. Considering that these accusations may well be to some extent reliable, how are we to envisage the connection that apparently existed between such doctrines and Muhammad’s own early message, with its emphasis on the more-orless- imminent end of the world and its subsequent announcement of the coming of the Messiah, be he Jesus or ‘Alī?
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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