Twelver Shīʿite Theology

This chapter examines the theology of the Twelver Shīʿites from the seventh/thirteenth century onwards. It begins by citing the role of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in ‘modernizing’ Twelver Shīʿī theology by introducing Avicennan notions into the kalām discourse, a development that had started among the Ash...

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Authors: Pūrǧawādī, Riḍā (Author) ; Schmidtke, Sabine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2016
In: The Oxford handbook of Islamic theology
Year: 2016
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)