the history and doctrines of the Akhbari Shii school
by Robert Gleave.
Boston :
Brill,
2007
xxiii, 339 p. ;
figures ;
24 cm.
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science,
v. 72. edited by: H. Daiber.
0169-8729 ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333) and index.
The Akhbari-Usuli dispute and the early "Akhbari" school -- Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi and the formation of the Akhbari school -- Astarabadi's legal thought -- Astarabadi's theological and philosophical thought -- The spread of Akhbarism after Astarabadi -- Defining the Akhbari-Usuli conflict -- Akhbari Quranic interpretation -- Sunna and the Akhbar in Akhbari jurisprudence -- Akhbari hermeneutics -- Conclusions.