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  • 6 - Politics: Rebellion and Heresy

  • from Part II - Heresy and Society
  • Ahmad Khan, American University in Cairo
  • Book:
    Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 184-205

  • Summary

    This chapter makes the case that Abu Hanifa’s relationship to politics and rulers was a key catalyst for the rise of discourses of heresy against him and, perhaps, the most consequential. Abu Hanifa’s alleged involvement with three rebellions flew in the face of a basic tenet of proto-Sunni traditionalist orthodoxy, namely, political quietism. It shows that politics and the state were implicated in evolving conceptions of orthodoxy and heresy, and how the growth of proto-Sunni traditionalism was in some ways fostered by political elites and representatives of the state.