The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition

Aun Hasan Ali is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. He is the author of articles in peer-review journals such as Islamic Studies, Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies and has contributed to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law and edited collections.

Acknowledgements
A Note on Conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction
Early scholarship on Imami law
The development of Imami legal studies
Recent scholarship on Imami law
General observations about the field
The Islamic tradition
The Imami madhhab
Conclusion
Chapter 2: The School of Hillah in Islamic History
The Seljuks and the late Abbasids
The Ilkhanids
The Jalayirids and the Qara-Qoyunlu
The Mazyadids and Hillah
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Learned Families of Hillah
The family of Nama
The family of Said al-Hudhali
The family of Tawus
The family of Fikhar
The family of Mutahhar
The family of Bitriq
The family of Mu'ayyah
The family of Rafi
The family of Abd al-Hamid al-Nili
The family of Wishah
The family of al-A'raj
The smaller families of Hillah
Conclusion: the Mazyadids
Chapter 4: The Literary Construction of the Imami Madhhab
Imami authorities
Rational sciences: philosophy, logic, and science
Theology and doctrine
Substantive law and jurisprudence
Imami bio-bibliography
Major compilations of Sunni hadith
Sunni scholars
Supplication and ritual
Fada'il
Quranic sciences and exegesis
Arabic language and literature
Uncategorized material, minor collections of hadith, and historical sources
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Substantive Law and Jurisprudence
The early jurists of hillah
Ibn Idris and al-Sara'ir
The methodology of the later scholars
Reason
The greatest battle
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Bio-bibliography
Jamal al-Din Ibn Tawus
Ibn Dawud
al-Allamah
Conclusion
Chapter 7: General Works of Hadith, Supplication and Ritual, and History and Genealogy
General works of hadith
Supplication and ritual
History and genealogy
Chapter 8: Exegesis and Fada'il
Exegesis
Fada'il
Chapter 9: A Brief Excursus on Philosophy and Theology
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index