The Old Text/New Text Controversy: Has the 20Th Century Got It Wrong?

Ess, Hans van

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“…83 Van Ess has shown that parts of the Kitab usul al-nihal were strongly influenced by al-Nawbakhti's works. 84 This influence is evident in the treatment of the MurjPites. Al-NashP's description of Abu Hanifa's doctrine of the imdma is remarkably similar to that found in Nawbakhti.…”

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Ghaylan al-Dimashqi: The Isolation of a Heretic in Islamic Historiography

Judd¹

1999

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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The meaning and significance of accusations of heresy are difficult to ascertain, regardless of the religious setting or historical milieu in which they appear. Scholars studying medieval European religious history have described heresy as opposition to the Christian church's doctrinal authority, emphasizing that heretics were not only religious but also political dissenters. They questioned church doctrine per se, but also, perhaps more significantly, challenged the church's authority to determine doctrine. In early Islamic history, concepts of heresy and orthodoxy are somewhat more difficult to define. After the Rashidun, there was no dominant religious voice in the community. Instead, a variety of opposing parties struggled for the right to define doctrine. In such circumstances, there could be no orthodoxy, since none had sufficient moral authority or coercive power to impose their views to the exclusion of all others. Consequently, there could be no heresy either, because heretics are simply those whom the dominant religious authority deems to be outside the bounds of orthodoxy. Only after proponents of a particular set of views gained sufficient power to impose their views on others could heterodoxy become heresy.

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Section: Ghaylan In the Heresiographical Sourcesmentioning

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Ghaylan al-Dimashqi: The Isolation of a Heretic in Islamic Historiography

Judd¹

1999

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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“… 16 Those who disapproved of feuding, particularly when this involved an inferior taking revenge on his superior, would frequently cite the proverbial saying “The ruler's order is sacrosanct” ( junming tianye 君命天也). This can be seen, for example, in the Hou Hanshu account of the Su 蘇-Li 李 blood feud (Fan 1973: 31.1109–10; Ess 1994: 161–4).…”

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Rape in early China: two case studies

Milburn

2023

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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With the exception of legal texts, surviving records of rape in early China have been the subject of little academic study to date. This is the result of a number of factors, including the criminalization of both consensual and non-consensual sex outside of marriage in ancient China, the tradition of using euphemistic vocabulary to refer to such topics, considerable variation, depending on time and place, as to what constitutes rape and discomfort that some very famous men are said to have committed crimes of rape and sexual violence. This article examines two famous and well-documented incidents – one concerning the rape of a woman in peacetime, the other an instance of mass gang rape during war – to explore the specific challenges of studying sexual violence in ancient civilizations. Ignoring early accounts of rape serves to significantly distort our understanding of some key events in Chinese history and perverts the textual record.

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Zuozhuan

Pines¹

2021

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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This entry introduces Zuozhuan ( Zuo Tradition or Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals ), the major historical work from China's preimperial age. The entry surveys debates about the nature of Zuozhuan (particularly its relation to the canonical Annals ), its dating and authorship, and its historical reliability. It highlights Zuozhuan 's role as a milestone in the development of Chinese historiography. The entry presents Zuozhuan as a peculiar product of China's aristocratic age, a text the ideological orientations of which differ considerably from those of China's later intellectual tradition.

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The Old Text/New Text Controversy: Has the 20Th Century Got It Wrong?

Cited by 11 publications

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Ghaylan al-Dimashqi: The Isolation of a Heretic in Islamic Historiography

Ghaylan al-Dimashqi: The Isolation of a Heretic in Islamic Historiography

Rape in early China: two case studies

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