Ahmed Ibn Hanbal And The Mihna PDF Download

Excerpt from Ahmed Ibn H nbal and the Mi na: A Biography of the Imam Including an Account of the Moham Medan Inquisition Called the Mihna, 218 234 A. H The following pages contain the record of the Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal and of a struggle with which he stood connected, whose issues were so great as to warrant a close study of all that is involved in the movement. The history of Dogma in Islam as written by Western writers has given us an idea of the questions which were being disputed at this time, and the outward history of events has recorded in very meagre outline the most important public occurrences of our narrative; but there has been, so far, no use made of the rich opportunity presented in the biography of Ahmed ibn Hanbal to see the theological controversies of Islam in their connection with the outward history of the State. This kind of historical study is the more interesting, because from it we arc enabled to understand the relation of the State to religion at that time, and the place occupied by religion and its teachers in the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."