This article assesses the evidence that legal biographies, legal and theological treatises and epigraphical inscriptions offer about the development of religious discourse in early 3rd/9th-century Ifrīqiya. It shows that, in contrast to the more homogenous depiction of religious life of Fatimid Ifrīqiya, according to which the main division was between Sunni Mālikī scholars and Fatimid, Shiʾite rulers, early 3rd/9th-century Ifrīqiya was characterized by a variety of different legal and theological interpretations, bringing its early intellectual history closer to that of other regions of the Islamic Empire. It also shows that this variety was related to the demographic configuration of the province, especially the distinction between the early wave of Arab settlers that arrived under Umayyad rule, and the later wave of settlers that arrived under the Abbasids. The formation of the religious identity of Ifrīqiya should be understood against this political and social background and against the province’s geographical and social proximity to al-Andalus and Egypt.
Cet article analyse les indications que les biographies juridiques, les traités juridiques et théologiques et les inscriptions épigraphiques offrent sur le développement du discours religieux dans l’Ifrīqiya du début du IIIe/IXe siècle. Il montre que, contrairement à la description homogène de la vie religieuse de l’Ifrīqiya fatimide, selon laquelle la principale division séparait les érudits sunnites Mālikites des souverains chiites fatimides, l’Ifrīqiya du début du IIIe/IXe siècle était caractérisée par une grande variété d’interprétations juridiques et théologiques, ce qui rapproche son histoire intellectuelle précoce de celle d’autres régions de l’Empire islamique. Elle montre également que cette diversité était liée à la configuration démographique de la province, en particulier à la distinction entre la première vague de soldats arabes arrivés sous le régime omeyyade et la dernière vague de soldats arrivés sous le régime abbasside. La formation de l’identité religieuse de l’Ifrīqiya doit être comprise dans ce contexte politique et social et dans la proximité géographique et sociale de la province avec al-Andalus et l’Égypte.
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This article assesses the evidence that legal biographies, legal and theological treatises and epigraphical inscriptions offer about the development of religious discourse in early 3rd/9th-century Ifrīqiya. It shows that, in contrast to the more homogenous depiction of religious life of Fatimid Ifrīqiya, according to which the main division was between Sunni Mālikī scholars and Fatimid, Shiʾite rulers, early 3rd/9th-century Ifrīqiya was characterized by a variety of different legal and theological interpretations, bringing its early intellectual history closer to that of other regions of the Islamic Empire. It also shows that this variety was related to the demographic configuration of the province, especially the distinction between the early wave of Arab settlers that arrived under Umayyad rule, and the later wave of settlers that arrived under the Abbasids. The formation of the religious identity of Ifrīqiya should be understood against this political and social background and against the province’s geographical and social proximity to al-Andalus and Egypt.
Cet article analyse les indications que les biographies juridiques, les traités juridiques et théologiques et les inscriptions épigraphiques offrent sur le développement du discours religieux dans l’Ifrīqiya du début du IIIe/IXe siècle. Il montre que, contrairement à la description homogène de la vie religieuse de l’Ifrīqiya fatimide, selon laquelle la principale division séparait les érudits sunnites Mālikites des souverains chiites fatimides, l’Ifrīqiya du début du IIIe/IXe siècle était caractérisée par une grande variété d’interprétations juridiques et théologiques, ce qui rapproche son histoire intellectuelle précoce de celle d’autres régions de l’Empire islamique. Elle montre également que cette diversité était liée à la configuration démographique de la province, en particulier à la distinction entre la première vague de soldats arabes arrivés sous le régime omeyyade et la dernière vague de soldats arrivés sous le régime abbasside. La formation de l’identité religieuse de l’Ifrīqiya doit être comprise dans ce contexte politique et social et dans la proximité géographique et sociale de la province avec al-Andalus et l’Égypte.
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