HAIDER Najam, The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam,

Abstract

This book, the third one of Najam Haider, who has been working on early Shī‘īsm for more than a decade, is an inquiry dedicated to Islamic historiography. In the last two decades, many studies have been published on this topic (Borrut, 2011; Donner, 1992; Shoshan, 2016), though few of them focused on the first centuries of Islam (El-Hibri, 2010). The historical sources composed during this period, between the rise of the ‘Abbāsid dynasty and its weakening, at the end of the 4th/10th century, ...