{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_isl_isl38_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_isl_isl38_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_isl_isl38_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/isl/isl38.htm","summary":"This is an academic historical-religious text \u2014 likely an anthology excerpt or course reader on Islamic sectarianism \u2014 tracing the origins of Shi'a Islam and providing annotated primary sources on the Zayd\u012b sect. It opens by explaining how the martyrdom of al-Husayn at Karbala in 680 CE transformed a political faction supporting 'Al\u012b's family into a distinct religious movement, and how the \"passion plays\" of the Tenth of Muharram gave that trauma enduring liturgical form. The bulk of the text examines the Zayd\u012bs as the most \"moderate\" of the three major Shi'\u012b sects \u2014 distinguished by their doctrine that the Im\u0101m must be an adult, capable military leader of any 'Alid descent, who is neither infallible nor invisible, and can be deposed \u2014 a position the author presents as a bridge between Sunni and Shi'\u012b conceptions of religious authority. Two primary sources follow: hadith traditions attributed to Zayd ibn 'Al\u012b on the conditions and limits of obedience to an Im\u0101m, and a rigorously puritanical third-century hisba (market-inspection) manual mandating the destruction of musical instruments, chess sets, images, and children's dolls while regulating mosque architecture and prayer ritual in distinctly Shi'\u012b forms. The text's distinctive angle is comparative and institutional: it situates Zayd\u012b theology and law relative to both Sunni norms and other Shi'\u012b sects, and uses the hisba manual to show how doctrinal positions translated into enforced social control, arguing this would have struck contemporary Sunnis as excessive even by medieval standards.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Islam: Chapter Six: The Dissidents of the Community: 2. The Zayd\u012bs","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1821}