The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism: ʿabdallāh B. Al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century

Brill's Islamic History and Civilization

by Feryal Salem

This book examines the way in which early Muslims begin to understand normative Islamic practice through the role of Muslim scholars who define, preserve, and pass on Islamic traditions. This later becomes the foundation of Sunni identity and Sufi piety. In the figure of ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak (118-181/736-797), we find a paragon of the fields of ḥadīth, zuhd, and jihād, as attested to by the large number of references to him in the classical Islamic texts.

Genres: Islam

174 pages, ebook

Published June 23, 2016