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Death of al-Shaykh al-Mufid and al-Sharif al-Murtada's succession, 413/1022

وفاة الشيخ المفيد ورياسة الشريف المرتضى، ٤١٣هـ

c. 1022 CE · 413 AH

Baghdad

On the death of al-Shaykh al-Mufid in 413/1022 his pupil al-Sharif al-Murtada, 'Alam al-Huda — who had also studied under the Mu'tazili Abd al-Jabbar — took over the leadership of the capital's Imamis, and al-Tusi subsequently became his principal disciple 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq
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1010102010301040 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Baghdad

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On the death of al-Shaykh al-Mufid in 413/1022 his pupil al-Sharif al-Murtada took over the leadership of the capital's Imamis, and al-Tusi subsequently became his principal disciple 1.

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al-Shaykh al-Tusi· al-Shaykh al-Mufid· al-Sharif al-Murtada
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Baghdad

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Al-Tusi's arrival in Baghdad, 408/1017· Al-Tusi succeeds al-Murtada as head of Baghdad's Shi'a, 436/1044· al-Shaykh al-Tusi· The Baratha Mosque Affair in 420· The death of al-Qadir and the accession of al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah, 422· The Baghdad Attestation on Fatimid Lineage· The ghilman's seizure and humiliation of Jalal al-Dawla, 424· al-Sharif al-Murtada

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 744
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Al-Tusi's arrival in Baghdad, 408/1017

After completing his preliminary studies at Tus, Abu Ja'far al-Tusi left a basically Shafi'i Khurasan, increasingly under Ghaznavid control, for Baghdad where the Shi'i Buyids were dominant, in 408/1017; there he studied under leading Imami masters — Ibn Abi Jid, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Musa al-Ahwazi, al-Ghada'iri and Ibn Abdun — and above all al-Shaykh al-Mufid, of whom despite his youth he quickly became one of the favourite pupils.