Servicing the Needs of a Community: Imamic Agency versus Local Demands
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Servicing the Needs of a Community: Imamic Agency versus Local Demands
By Edmund Hayes A great body of Twelver legal doctrines is expressed through the Twelver ḥadīth corpus. A large body of these reports, like Sunnī ḥadīth, take the narrative form of members of the community asking questions. This can be seen a trope: a literary device that conveniently allows for the conveying of specific information. However, unless one wishes to resort to an unnecessarily nihilistic skepticism, we should assume it also reflects…
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