Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Haider, Najam

Titel

The Community Divided: A Textual Analysis of the Murders of Idrīs b. ʿAbd Allāh (d. 175/791)

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2008-07, Vol.128 (3), p.459-475

Ort / Verlag

Ann Arbor: American Oriental Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1 The uprising was a result of tensions stemming from the concurrent deaths of the cAbbasid caliph, al-Mahdi, and the consensus head of the nascent Zaydi community, cIsa b. Zayd.2 The new caliph, al-Hadi, assumed a hostile and antagonistic stance towards the euroAlids, ordering al-Husayn b. cAli and other prominent (and potentially dangerous) Hasanids and Husaynids residing in Iraq to return to Medina, where they were kept under the watchful eye of the new governor of the Hijaz, cAbd al-cAziz b. cAbd Allah alcUmari.3 The historical sources attribute the revolt to a series of repressive measures, particularly the imposition of a daily roll call. [...] most quickly left the mosque and returned to their homes to await the cAbbasid military response.7 Perhaps if the cAlids had waited a month until the end of the Hajj and had declared their intentions in Mecca, they would have posed a more serious threat to cAbbasid power.8 In Medina, however, al-Husayn b. euro?