HASTAC Commons | editor, B. Kristiansen | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/bkristia/activity/ Activity feed for editor, B. Kristiansen. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8fcf0be96f3e757c4effa7967a5513a6 editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=382 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:30:37 +0000 Universiteit Leiden

11–12 June 2026

In much existing scholarship, our understanding of Muslim groups in early Islam has been gauged through a reliance on later works of heresiography and doxography. T […]

]]> 804acf866f482abaae1d763384837ff5 editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, Signs indicating the imams as the Chosen ones, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=250 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:33:53 +0000 Zahra Azhar

Folio from the Majma’ al-tawarikh (Compendium of history) by Hafiz Abru (d.1430); recto: The Birth of Muhammad; verso: text, Wet nurse Halima and her husband, Harith, taking care of infant M […]

]]> 49127029d1a025d58ecd72512208f651 editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, Imams in a literal and literary sense, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=242 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:26:36 +0000 Leone Pecorini Goodall

Abbasid Dirham of al-Maʾmūn (d. 833) with the tile al-Imām on obverse.

Imam with an uppercase I

The term imam has often been used relatively uncritically in discussions co […]

]]> 1b032d65d19a20bfb9fd8867342f543f editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, Praying Behind an Imam, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=239 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:22:16 +0000 Adam Ramadhan

A report variously ascribed to the Prophet Muḥammad (d. 11/632), Abū Dharr (d. 32/653), ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661), and Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (d. 148/765), states: “your imam is your delegate (or ‘i […]

]]> c3b229339f5bae4c7212633f403b708b editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, Inscriptions, Images, and Architecture of Imamate, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=235 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:16:07 +0000 Aila Santi

Can archaeology, material culture, and iconography shed light on the role and concept of Imam/Imamate in the first two centuries of Islam?

If we look at the epigraphic record, the most securely […]

]]> a65e250239d80a0a76d0d8bd41295511 editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, What is an Imam? The Evidence of the Quran and Early Legal Thinking, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=214 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:54:25 +0000 Edmund Hayes

When did the idea of “imam” become a thing? When did it reach its mature meaning of the supreme religio-political leader of the Muslims?

In her survey of Islamic political thought, Patricia Cro […]

]]> adb267a71500041468b79227703bfd68 editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, What is an Imam?, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=208 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:05:41 +0000 Zahra Azhar, Edmund Hayes, Birte Kristiansen, Leone Pecorini-Goodall, Adam Ramadhan, Aila Santi

The investiture of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib at Ghadir Khumm (MS Arab 161, fol. 162r, 1308–1309 CE, Ilkhani […]

]]> 2187c1966f93bba3e61226f763c2b2d1 editor, B. Kristiansen wrote a new post, Call for Papers, on the site Embodied Imamate https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/?p=197 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:51:08 +0000 The Social Dynamics of Communal Affiliation in Early Islam

Universiteit Leiden

11–12 June 2026

In much existing scholarship, our understanding of Muslim groups in early Islam has been gauged t […]

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