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🔻"The State of Religious Conflicts in the First Half of the Third Century AH Based on al-ʿUthmāniyya by al-Jāḥiẓ", Lec03
speaker, Dr. Hassan Ansari
Dec 9, 2025

🟥 Lecture in Persian, can be watched with closed caption (CC) and auto-translate on our channel.

Summary:
In this session, we provided a comprehensive explanation of the historical and religious circumstances of al-Jāḥiẓ’s era that led to the composition of al-ʿUthmāniyya, as well as the reasons and motives that prompted him to write this book and his own view of it. We also discussed the perspectives of two other powerful intellectual schools of thought in Baghdad during his time—namely the Shiʿa and the Muʿtazila—regarding this book, along with their reactions to al-Jāḥiẓ and this work of his. By listening to this discussion, those interested may gain a fairly complete picture of the religious climate of Baghdad in al-Jāḥiẓ’s era.

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🔻"The State of Religious Conflicts in the First Half of the Third Century AH Based on al-ʿUthmāniyya by al-Jāḥiẓ", Lec04
speaker, Dr. Hassan Ansari
Dec 16, 2025

🟥 Lecture in Persian, can be watched with closed caption (CC) and auto-translate on our channel.

Summary:
In this session, which was the final session of the discussions on the book al-ʿUthmāniyya, the following topics were discussed:

1. Early refutations of the book al-ʿUthmāniyya;

2. Why did Ibn al-Rāwandī become the target of hostility from the Muʿtazila? Was he a Shiʿi in terms of religious affiliation?

3. What were the historical conditions surrounding Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khayyāṭ’s authorship of the book al-Intiṣār?

4. The relationship between the concept of naṣṣ (explicit divine designation) and the issue of religious authority (ḥujjiyya) in religion, and the problem of the relationship between religion, society, and reason;

5. What connection exists between Ibn al-Rāwandī’s views and those of al-Fārābī?

6. What is the relationship between al-Fārābī’s theory of the Virtuous City (al-Madīna al-Fāḍila) and the Shiʿi concept of naṣṣ?

7. From the nabat of al-Jāḥiẓ to the nawābit of al-Fārābī;

8. Why did the early Sunni forebears feel the need to construct consensus (ijmāʿ) in order to legitimize jurisprudence and the Sharīʿa?

9. What do “Sunna” and “Jamāʿa” mean in the term Ahl al-Sunna wa’l-Jamāʿa, and why was Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal compelled to introduce the doctrine of “tarbīʿ” in response to the new wave of Shiʿi intellectualism in third-century Baghdad?

10. How did the Sunnis manage to extricate themselves from the era of ʿUthmānism and its associated constraints?

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