This book is a mammoth undertaking that interrogates the archival record to meticulously trace the relationships that existed between scholars and their texts....
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This book argues that Imami Shi'ism is better understood as a discursive tradition, and that from the late Abbasid to the post-Ilkhanid period, Hillah, in southern Iraq, was a center of scholarship, debate and...
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