Webinar “Carved in Stone? Shii Funerary Inscriptions and Religious Identity in early Islamic Egypt” by Teresa Bernheimer (Oxford University) — Online, 25 June 2025

Seminar: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE PROGRAM ERC Horizon STG project, 2024-2028 PI: Edmund Hayes, Leiden University According to the canonical accounts of Twelver Shiʿism, the Imams were a sequence of twelve men who passed supreme religious authority in succession from father to son between 661 and 874 CE. Yet this canonical sequence owes more retrospective doctrinal reconstruction than to the historical existence of a continuing institution of leadershi...