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The Life and Legacy of Jafar al-Sadiq introduces the stories and controversies around one of the most central figures of early Islamic thought. Widely revered in his time and highly regarded by Muslims around the world today, Jafar al-Sadiq (702– 765 CE) lived an intriguing and illuminating life. Drawing upon classical Arabic and Persian sources, with some passages translated into English for the first time, Matthew Pierce helps make this complex history more accessible to both the general reader and students of Islam and its history. Jafar lived in the waning years of the Umayyad Empire. He was head of one of the Muslim community's most revered families. The frequent revolutionary uprisings of the 8th century offered him numerous opportunities to assume political power. He repeatedly passed up such opportunities, instead dedicating himself to teaching and learning. This work uses Jafar’ s life as a prism to examine the groups, ideas, and interpretive frameworks that have coalesced around his legacy rather than attempt a chronological biography. The Life and Legacy of Jafar al-Sadiq explores important aspects of major Islamic intellectual movements, delves into early debates within Islam, and reflects on the richness of Muslim spiritual traditions.
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Matthew Pierce (PhD, Boston University) is Associate Professor of Religion at Centre College and Director of Centre Global. He is the author of Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiism (Harvard University Press, 2016), winner of Iran’ s Book of the Year Award. Matthew Pierce has lived and studied in Egypt, Yemen, and Iran. He specialized in Islamic history, religion and sexuality, and sectarianism. Pierce has published his work in premier reference volumes, such as The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2012) and the Encyclopedia of Islam (Brill).
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