Abstract
Modern historiography is infamous for its propensity to challenge received accounts of the formation of religious doctrine. This study examines Twelver reactions to historical studies of the formation of Twelver doctrine, and the terms on which the tradition has engaged Western academic scholarship on the Imamate and the Occultation.
Keywords
- Twelve Imams
- Twelver Doctrine
- Occultation
- Hossein Modarressi
- theology
- intellectual history
Cite this
Habib Mazahir, Syed Ali Naqi Zaidi. "From Ithnā-ʿAshariyya to Western Academia: Twelver Reactions to Historical Studies of the Formation of Twelver Doctrine." Al-Qalam Journal of Advanced Islamic Research 1, no. 3 (2024): 11–91.