Postdoctoral opportunity in History of Islam/Arabic Studies, Leiden University, February 2024-2027
Scholars have long recognized that although ShiÊ¿i claims emerged early in Islamic history, Imami ShiÊ¿ism took a couple of centuries to crystallise. Scholarship on ShiÊ¿ism has tended to focus on doctrine, but hitherto there has been little research into the institutions and social networks of early Imami ShiÊ¿ism. The project aims to propose the first …