Several Omani/Ibadi manuscripts discovered over the past four decades, particularly in the Sultanate of Oman and North Africa, contain the texts of what is commonly termed “sirah” (“history”) or “jam’ al siyar” (“collection of histories”). They belong to a familiar type of literature, a genre used when addressing the general public in mosques in the early Islamic era (1st and 2nd /7th and 8th) centuries.
Most of the siyar convey the viewpoint of the school and consist of homilies, epistles, addressed to the fellowship of the believers. These epistles are read out aloud by the preacher, setting out what ought or ought not to be believed, as well as those deeds that ought or ought not to be done. The exhortations at the beginning of the siyar are relatively long and reflect the social context of their time.[1] The siyar that have so far been reviewed and edited are from what is referred to as the “Basra period”; most of them were written in Iraq, while some of the others were produced during the “regional period” – i.e. “abroad”.[2]
^P. Crone and F. Zimmermann, The Epistle of Salim b. Dhakwan, p.23, Oxford University Press, 2001.
^Michael Cock, Early Muslim Dogma, p. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
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adoption of their doctrine [madhhabihim]." In his biographical dictionary Siyar a`lam al-nubala, Athari theologian Al-Dhahabi described his teacher Ibn...
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Abu Hurayra ibn al-Dhahabi; comprising over 30,000 biographical records. Siyar a`lam al-nubala (سير أعلام النبلاء) ('The Lives of Noble Figures') by al-Dhahabi...
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