Chapter 3 Life and Worldview
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Muslimâs social milieu, education, scholarly circle, and political views are the subject of Chapter 3. I discuss the possibility of Muslimâs belonging to the social category of clients (mawÄlÄ«). The chapter includes a study of the regional distribution of Muslim shaykhs in general and those most frequently cited in the á¹¢aḥīḥ in particular. It clearly shows the preponderance of Iraqi and KhurÄsÄni teachers at the expense of shaykhs from the other parts of the Islamic empire. Compared with the number of shaykhs, Muslimâs students were less numerous and resided mainly in NaysÄbÅ«r, which suggests a regionally confined network of followers and transmitters of the á¹¢aḥīḥ in the first generation after Muslim. The Miḥna (c. 218â237/c. 833â852), which set to loggerheads the political authority and the nascent traditionalist party in Baghdad and other parts of the caliphate, is an important topic in Chapter 3. Muslim witnessed this climactic event, although is repercussions in NaysÄbÅ«r under the ṬÄhirids remained insignificant at best. In this chapter, I take up Muslimâs attitude to Ê¿AlÄ« and the Umayyad dynasty.