Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2021
Chapter 3 examines the views of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869), a Muʿtazilī belletrist who lived in a period in which anti-ʿAlid sentiment still ran high in various parts of the Muslim world. His Risālat al-ʿUthmāniyya examines the views of one of the factions introduced in the previous chapter and constitutes a seminal text for understanding this anti-ʿAlid current in early Islam. Al-Jāḥiẓ’s treatise triggered a number of rebuttals from authors who condemned him as an anti-ʿAlid.
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