Bayān b. Samʿān

by Walker, Paul E.

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Bayān b. Samʿān (d. 119/737) was the leader of an early radical Shīʿī movement in Iraq, called after him the Bayāniyya. Bayān himself appears in nearly all of the major Islamic heresiographies (for example, those of al-Nawbakhtī, al-Qummī, al-Ashʿarī, al-Nāshiʾ, Abū Tammām, al-Baghdādī, Ibn Ḥazm, al-Ḥimyarī, and al-Shahrastānī), in which he is charged with various forms of heresy, much, if not most, of which is unlikely to have been true of the historical figure to whom they are attributed. In …

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Bayān b. Samʿān (d. 119/737) was the leader of an early radical Shīʿī movement in Iraq, called after him the Bayāniyya. Bayān himself appears in nearly all of the major Islamic heresiographies (for example, those of al-Nawbakhtī, al-Qummī, al-Ashʿarī, al-Nāshiʾ, Abū Tammām, al-Baghdādī, Ibn Ḥazm, al-Ḥimyarī, and al-Shahrastānī), in which he is charged with various forms of heresy, much, if not most, of which is unlikely to have been true of the historical figure to whom they are attributed. In any case,

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1380

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eng Islam

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Walker, Paul E.

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