Edmund Hayes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmund Hayes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmund |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1615-5157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1910 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Land, Law and Water Politics
Ibn ʿAsākir’s Tārīkh madīnat Dimashq includes a number accounts regarding the water distribution regime in Damascus and its hinterland under Umayyad rule in the seventh and eighth centuries CE. In studying these reports, I shall attempt to answer key questions that are otherwise hard to address: how did the early Islamic elites insert themselves into existing water regimes; did this cause friction; to what extent did the Umayyad caliphs consider …
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
The success of Islamic imperialism in the period from the conquests to the Ayyubid dynasty has traditionally been explained as purely the result of military might. This book, however, adopts a bottom-up approach which puts social relationships and local power dynamics at the centre of the Islamic empire's cohesion. Its chapters draw on sources in diverse languages: not just Arabic, but also Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Hebrew, and Bactrian, showing how…
Embodied Politics
This article contextualizes the eleventh-century Persian Qābūsnāma , by the Ziyārid prince Kay Kāʾūs b. Iskandar (r. 441/1049–1050–ca. 480/1087), within the transregional tradition of medieval "Mirrors for Princes." It argues that the Qābūsnāma provides a distinctive synthesis of political exempla drawn from the Persianate wisdom tradition, humoural medicine, and physiognomy to produce a vision of practical politics which rests on notably embodie…
Encountering the Internal Other
This article looks at the figure of the extreme anti-Shiʿi, the nāṣib , as treated by early Imami Shiʿi discourse during the seventh–ninth centuries CE . Several stories are studied in which the nāṣib is encountered as a problematic internal other within Shiʿi family structures. It is argued that such narratives gesture at the ways in which complex social realities were responded to by social and religious authorities such as the Shiʿi imams. Whi…
Opposing the Imam
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention
This article examines the social institution of petitioning the imam (Shiʿi religious leader) by members of a minority Muslim community in the eighth to ninth centuries ce. Amidst the mass of hadith reports preserved by Twelver Shiʿa, most deal with questions of ritual law and theology. This article gathers a few petitions made to imams which appear to represent social interactions and everyday problems more than intellectual or doctrinal issues,…
Comparing “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle East
This introduction suggests an approach to the study of excommunication that is comparative (here highlighting Jewish, Christian and Islamic cases) and carefully contextual, taking note of specific institutional dynamics and processes of historical memory formation. Moreover, excommunication should be not be understood as a clearly defined category, but part of a broader network of acts of boundary enforcement which share certain features, includi…
“Smash His Head with a Rock”
In this article, I study how Imāmī imams ʿAlī al-Hādī (d. 868 CE) and al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī (d. 874 CE) attempted to police boundaries. While their excommunications have hitherto been treated through the lens of doctrinal discipline, I argue that we should not situate doctrine within practice. Religious leaders like the Imams used the politics of boundaries in order to meet challenges to their authority. By studying acts of excommunication we get a…
Agents of the Hidden Imam
In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden twelfth Imam. This was the beginning of 'Twelver' Shiʿism. Edmund Hayes provides an innovative approach to exploring early Shiʿism, moving beyond doctrinal history to provide an analysis of the socio-political processes leading to the canonisation of the O…
The Institutions of the Shīʿī Imāmate
Mushegh Asatryan has recently criticised the use of the word “community” as a framework for understanding early Shiʿism. This article makes the case in favour of community as a framework when used precisely as a foundation for a properly sociological approach to early Imāmī Shiʿism. Imāmī Shiʿism has most often been treated as a community of belief. However, if we understand the early Imāmī community through the lens of its social institutions ce…
Between Implementation and Legislation
The Imami Shiʿa are usually treated as a community defined by belief. By analysing a letter attributed to the ninth Imami Imam, Muḥammad al-Jawād dated to the year of his death in 220/835, I show that the Imami Shiʿa were defined also by institutional structures that tied them to their Imam in his capacity as community leader. Details of transmission, form and content suggest that the letter may well be authentic, giving us a unique window onto t…
Caliph and the Heretic
The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shiʿism. By Sean W. Anthony. Islamic History and Civilization, vol. 91. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii + 352. $189, €152
Twelve Infallible Men
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism. By Matthew Pierce. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 254. $45, £35.95, €40.50
Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam
Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam: The Ghulat Muslims and Their Beliefs. By Mushegh Asatryan. Shi'i Heritage Series, vol. 4. London: I.B. Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2016. Pp. xviii + 206. $48.50, £29.50
The Death of Kings
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh was not conceived as a national epic, but it does encapsulate another kind of group identity: it provides context and meaning for the glorious pedigree of the Iranian aristocracy. Ferdowsi himself was a member of the Khorasani dehqān gentry whose collective effort in the tenth century CE was turned towards preserving and reshaping their own history and literary heritage in the terms of the new era. This article analyzes the f…
The Log of the Union
Journal Article The Log of the Union: John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the World, 1794–1796 Get access The Log of the Union: John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the World, 1794–1796. Edited by Hayes Edmund. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1981. xxxvii + 136 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes. $19.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.) William F. King William F. King Mt. San Antonio College Search f…
Log of the Union
(J) Alms and the Man
The sociological dimensions of the development of a sectarian orientation in early Imami Shiʿism have remained sparsely explored since Marshall Hodgson posed the question ‘How did the early Shia become sectarian?’ in 1955. This article explores Imamic hadith statements on the canonical ritual payment of zakāt/ṣadaqa as a way of tracking the crystallisation of communitarian boundaries. It argues that the Shiʿi Imams, especially Imam Bāqir, fit int…
Voyage of the New Hazard to the Northwest Coast, Hawaii and China, 1810-1813
Distributive Justice. John A. Ryan
Justifiable Individualism.Frank Wilson Blackmar
The Process of History. Frederick J. Teggart
A League of Nations.Henry Noel Brailsford
The Future of Trade-Unionism and Capitalism in a Democracy. Charles W. Eliot
The Death of Kings
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh was not conceived as a national epic, but it does encapsulate another kind of group identity: it provides context and meaning for the glorious pedigree of the Iranian aristocracy. Ferdowsi himself was a member of the Khorasani dehqān gentry whose collective effort in the tenth century CE was turned towards preserving and reshaping their own history and literary heritage in the terms of the new era. This article analyzes the f…
The Future of Trade-Unionism and Capitalism in a Democracy. Charles W. Eliot
The Process of History. Frederick J. Teggart
A League of Nations.Henry Noel Brailsford
Justifiable Individualism.Frank Wilson Blackmar
Distributive Justice. John A. Ryan
Voyage of the New Hazard to the Northwest Coast, Hawaii and China, 1810-1813
(J) Alms and the Man
The sociological dimensions of the development of a sectarian orientation in early Imami Shiʿism have remained sparsely explored since Marshall Hodgson posed the question ‘How did the early Shia become sectarian?’ in 1955. This article explores Imamic hadith statements on the canonical ritual payment of zakāt/ṣadaqa as a way of tracking the crystallisation of communitarian boundaries. It argues that the Shiʿi Imams, especially Imam Bāqir, fit int…
Log of the Union
The Log of the Union
Journal Article The Log of the Union: John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the World, 1794–1796 Get access The Log of the Union: John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the World, 1794–1796. Edited by Hayes Edmund. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1981. xxxvii + 136 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes. $19.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.) William F. King William F. King Mt. San Antonio College Search f…
The Death of Kings
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh was not conceived as a national epic, but it does encapsulate another kind of group identity: it provides context and meaning for the glorious pedigree of the Iranian aristocracy. Ferdowsi himself was a member of the Khorasani dehqān gentry whose collective effort in the tenth century CE was turned towards preserving and reshaping their own history and literary heritage in the terms of the new era. This article analyzes the f…
The Institutions of the Shīʿī Imāmate
Mushegh Asatryan has recently criticised the use of the word “community” as a framework for understanding early Shiʿism. This article makes the case in favour of community as a framework when used precisely as a foundation for a properly sociological approach to early Imāmī Shiʿism. Imāmī Shiʿism has most often been treated as a community of belief. However, if we understand the early Imāmī community through the lens of its social institutions ce…
Between Implementation and Legislation
The Imami Shiʿa are usually treated as a community defined by belief. By analysing a letter attributed to the ninth Imami Imam, Muḥammad al-Jawād dated to the year of his death in 220/835, I show that the Imami Shiʿa were defined also by institutional structures that tied them to their Imam in his capacity as community leader. Details of transmission, form and content suggest that the letter may well be authentic, giving us a unique window onto t…
Caliph and the Heretic
The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shiʿism. By Sean W. Anthony. Islamic History and Civilization, vol. 91. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii + 352. $189, €152
Twelve Infallible Men
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism. By Matthew Pierce. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 254. $45, £35.95, €40.50
Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam
Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam: The Ghulat Muslims and Their Beliefs. By Mushegh Asatryan. Shi'i Heritage Series, vol. 4. London: I.B. Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2016. Pp. xviii + 206. $48.50, £29.50
Agents of the Hidden Imam
In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden twelfth Imam. This was the beginning of 'Twelver' Shiʿism. Edmund Hayes provides an innovative approach to exploring early Shiʿism, moving beyond doctrinal history to provide an analysis of the socio-political processes leading to the canonisation of the O…
Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention
This article examines the social institution of petitioning the imam (Shiʿi religious leader) by members of a minority Muslim community in the eighth to ninth centuries ce. Amidst the mass of hadith reports preserved by Twelver Shiʿa, most deal with questions of ritual law and theology. This article gathers a few petitions made to imams which appear to represent social interactions and everyday problems more than intellectual or doctrinal issues,…
Comparing “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle East
This introduction suggests an approach to the study of excommunication that is comparative (here highlighting Jewish, Christian and Islamic cases) and carefully contextual, taking note of specific institutional dynamics and processes of historical memory formation. Moreover, excommunication should be not be understood as a clearly defined category, but part of a broader network of acts of boundary enforcement which share certain features, includi…
“Smash His Head with a Rock”
In this article, I study how Imāmī imams ʿAlī al-Hādī (d. 868 CE) and al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī (d. 874 CE) attempted to police boundaries. While their excommunications have hitherto been treated through the lens of doctrinal discipline, I argue that we should not situate doctrine within practice. Religious leaders like the Imams used the politics of boundaries in order to meet challenges to their authority. By studying acts of excommunication we get a…
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
The success of Islamic imperialism in the period from the conquests to the Ayyubid dynasty has traditionally been explained as purely the result of military might. This book, however, adopts a bottom-up approach which puts social relationships and local power dynamics at the centre of the Islamic empire's cohesion. Its chapters draw on sources in diverse languages: not just Arabic, but also Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Hebrew, and Bactrian, showing how…
Embodied Politics
This article contextualizes the eleventh-century Persian Qābūsnāma , by the Ziyārid prince Kay Kāʾūs b. Iskandar (r. 441/1049–1050–ca. 480/1087), within the transregional tradition of medieval "Mirrors for Princes." It argues that the Qābūsnāma provides a distinctive synthesis of political exempla drawn from the Persianate wisdom tradition, humoural medicine, and physiognomy to produce a vision of practical politics which rests on notably embodie…
Encountering the Internal Other
This article looks at the figure of the extreme anti-Shiʿi, the nāṣib , as treated by early Imami Shiʿi discourse during the seventh–ninth centuries CE . Several stories are studied in which the nāṣib is encountered as a problematic internal other within Shiʿi family structures. It is argued that such narratives gesture at the ways in which complex social realities were responded to by social and religious authorities such as the Shiʿi imams. Whi…
Opposing the Imam
Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
Land, Law and Water Politics
Ibn ʿAsākir’s Tārīkh madīnat Dimashq includes a number accounts regarding the water distribution regime in Damascus and its hinterland under Umayyad rule in the seventh and eighth centuries CE. In studying these reports, I shall attempt to answer key questions that are otherwise hard to address: how did the early Islamic elites insert themselves into existing water regimes; did this cause friction; to what extent did the Umayyad caliphs consider …
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