Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- Part I History of Orthodoxy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Discourses of Heresy I (800-850) -- 3 Discourses of Heresy II (850-950) -- Part II Heresy and Society -- 4 Regionalism and Topographies of Heresy -- 5 Ethnogenesis and Heresy -- 6 Politics: Rebellion and Heresy -- 7 Religion and Society -- Part III Unmaking Heresy: Orthodoxy as History Writing -- 8 Manāqib: Narratives of Orthodoxy I -- 9 Masānīd: Narratives of Orthodoxy II
Part IV The Formation of Classical Sunnism -- 10 Consensus and Heresy -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Offers an original account of the formation of medieval Sunnism, emphasising Islamic discourses of heresy and orthodoxy
