Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY tian custom, walking around him with censers and candles or lamps to the place where he was "buried."98 A ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES of piety, and when 'Amr died (ca. 678) his companions did the same for him out of respect.^103 Abii Burda ...
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY be recited over him there.^112 Ibriihim an-Nakha'i's request that there be no illumination at his funeral ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES lamented, carried in procession to the cemetery, and laid in a grave that was shored up with brick or wood ...
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY to Manichaeism or to Christian monasticism. The significance of Man- ichaeism as a form of social revolt ...
RELIGIO'U S COMMUN ITIES jecting to asceticism among Muslims lay in their recognition of the Manichaean implications of celibacy ...
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY a son this world will distract me and I would like to avoid that. "127 With regard to the second charge, ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES against the self-sufficiency of the wealthy Makkan merchants, and there were some early Muslim ascetics wh ...
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY If thou art truly humble, be not troubled if thou art oppressed. And do not excuse thyself in any point, ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES MYSTICISM But Christian piety was undergoing a major transformation itself among Nestorians in Iraq in the ...
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY Isaac to replace the burning torments of Hell with suffering for those who had sinned against love and se ...
RELI G I O.U S C OMM UN ITIES Muslims sorted out among themselves which practices and attitudes would be acceptable and which wo ...
Chapter 15 MUSLIMS: DOCTRINES OF AUTHORITY AND REBELLION THE POLITICS OF PIETY Piety had political signifidnce. Styles of piety ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES the conquest, especially during the two (itnas of 656-61 and 680-92, the antagonists tended to define each ...
MUSLIMS: DOCTRINES the land grants made by 'Uthman and his governors to reduce the main source of their own military stipends. I ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Ibn Wahb with about five hundred Basrans east of Mada'in at Nah- rawan.^9 On their way to Nahrawan, the fo ...
MUSLIMS: DOCTRINES the Qur'an, and fear of Hell. They said a prayer to exorcise evil spirits before reciting the Qur'an and they ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES agreeing with them, as an apostate (Ar. murtadd) or unbeliever. Such people, they felt, must forfeit their ...
MUSLIMS: DOCTRINES Basran Khawarij, including Nafi' ibn al-Azraq and Najda ibn 'Amir, both of the Banii f:lanifa, joined Ibn az- ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES any sin. Najda and his followers, who were called Najdiyya, controlled central Arabia during the later yea ...
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