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Index Aban b. Taghlib, 31, 88, 128; profile of, 163–69, 171–72, 175–76, 178–79¡Abbasid(s), ¡Alid relationship with, 79, 113, 115, 141; caliphs, 6–7, 9–15, 25–26, 33–34, 141, 181; charisma of, 26; as heirs of Prophet, 33; and scholars, 13, 15¡Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, 8–9 Abu Hanifa, 13, 21, 30, 84, 101, 106, 125, 128, 135–36, 169; creed of, 136; personal reasoning, 21, 106 ahl al-bayt, 27–28, 35, 58, 69, 85, 116, 126 al-Ahwal, Muhammad b. ¡Ali, 88, 96, 99–100, 102, 111, 121, 125, 128, 157, 159¡Ali b. Abu Talib, 6–7, 25–26, 53, 57–58, 106, 122, 126–28, 148, 152, 166, 173, 178; authority of, 57, 148, 176; divinity of, 119; grave of, 64, 67; miracles of, 91, 93, 147–48, 166, 171, 173, 178; Shi¡i view of, 25–26, 68, 84, 96, 126, 128; Sufi view of, 43, 68–69; ziyara of, 65¡Alid, leadership, 113, 143; loyalism, 58; revolts by, 15, 79, 115; stance, 68; views of, 168 al-Asadi, Abu Basir, 62, 92, 117 asl, 167, 175; see also usul arba¡ mia authority, xii; of ¡Abbasid caliphs, 9–10; of Abu Hanifa, 21–22; of ¡Ali, 26; administrative, 11; apostolic, 28; charismatic, xii, 1–6, 24–25, 28; of baraka, 45–47; in biographical texts, 145, 151, 158, 163; caliphal, 8–14, 33, 110, 141; charismatic: see charismatic authority; comprehensive, 6–8, 12, 18, 31, 33, 42, 57–58, 63, 70, 79– 80, 112, 120, 146, 149, 182; delegation of, 80–81, 83, 85–86, 88, 90, 128, 143, 152, 180, 183; epistemic, 90–91, 153, 183; exercise of, xi–xii, 1–2, 40, 181; of heirs of the Prophet, 33; hereditary: see charisma, hereditary ; of holy man, 23, 37, 39–40, 42– 43, 47–56, 70, 73–74, 76–77, 147, 182; of Imams, xiii, 8, 24–29, 33, 36, 57–60, 62–68, 71, 77, 80, 82, 85–86, 91, 94–95, 97, 102, 105–7, 109, 111, 113–14, 119–20, 122, 124–26, 128, 133, 138–39, 143, 147, 153, 157, 179, 183; of jurists, xii; Kufi view of, 21; of Medinan practices, 19–20; of Muhammad, xii, 4–8, 11, 18, 24–27, 33–34, 36, 42, 78–79, 112, 120, 124, 181; post-Muhammadan, xi–xii, 5, 24–25, 129, 182; political, 5–8, 14, 18, 27, 30–32, 80, 98, 148; preIslamic , 5–6; of reasoning, 102, 149; rational legal, 1–3, 86; religious, 8– 15, 17, 20, 23–24, 31, 33–35, 40, 45, 71, 74, 129, 140, 181, 183–84; of rijal, xiii, 31, 81–83, 86, 89–90, 94– 230 Index authority (continued) 95, 99, 102–3, 105, 108–9, 112, 116, 119, 123–24, 135–40, 142–43, 145, 149–54, 156–57, 159–60, 169, 177– 80, 183–84; routinization of, xii–xiii, 5–7, 31, 107; Shi¡i routinization of, 78–79, 83, 86–87; of sayyids, 44, 58; Shafi¡i’s view of, 22; of shari¡ men, 18–23, 31–32, 35, 72–74, 76–77, 104; Shi¡i view of, xii; 24, 27–28, 30, 32, 56, 78, 104, 106–7, 132, 183; spiritual , xii, 18, 42, 57, 68, 70, 76, 91, 147; struggle for, xi–xii, xiv, 14, 75, 77, 98, 104, 106–7, 146, 153, 179, 182; Sufi view of, 42–43, 73, 182; of sunna, 23; textual, xiv, 145–46, 183; traditional, 2–3, 6, 86; types of, xii, 1– 2; of ¡ulama£, 11–12, 17, 33–34, 182; of Umayyad Caliphs, 7–9; 11 Ayoub Mahmoud, 49 al-Baqir, Muhammad b. ¡Ali, 28, 30, 58, 80, 91, 93–96, 106, 112, 116, 140, 174–76; and disciples, 61, 80–81, 84, 92, 94–96, 98, 100, 103, 167, 174–75; hadith of, 30, 83–84, 114– 17, 136, 164, 171, 174, 176, 178; and extremists, 93; knowledge of, 62; miracles of, 92, 174 baraka, authority of, 47, 73; of dead, 46; definition of, 45; expressions of, 47; of holy men, 42, 46–47, 51, 53, 64, 70, 73; popular culture and, 45; power of, 47; of Prophet, 71; in Qur¡an, 46; of Ramadhan, 46–47; of rijal, 94, 153; of tree, 46; of sayyids, 46; of shari¡ men, 74; Shi¡i view of, 64, 66, 70; of shrine, 51, 66; Sufi view of, 46, 73; transmission of, 46, 53, 66, 71, 73 al-Basri...

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