caa a22 4500 388087285 CHVBK 20180307125234.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1356186300168531 doi S1356186300168531 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1356186300168531 Knysh Alexander The Sāda in History: A critical essay on Ḥaḍramī historiography [Elektronische Daten] [Alexander Knysh] In attempting to write a religious and political history of Ḥaḍramawt in the Middle Ages one inevitably encounters a number of methodological and historiographical problems some of which will be addressed in the present article. The first arises from the overall scarcity of historical documentation on the period in question. More importantly, the sources that are available are riddled with underlying agendas and biases, which often hinge on considerations of genealogy and clannish honour. These genealogical or clannish agendas and biases are evident in the sources dealing with practically every aspect of Ḥaḍrami history. However, they are especially conspicuous in the historical texts which describe the spread of the Shāfi'ī school of law in Ḥaḍramawt, the cult of local saints and the origins of local religious and educational institutions. In my recent study of Ḥaḍramī shrines and seasonal pilgrimages, I have brought out the genealogical underpinnings of the theological polemic around the cult of local holy men and women - a polemic that grew especially intense in the first decades of our century and flared up with a vengeance during the recent civil war between the Northern and Southern parts of unified Yemen. In this paper I will demonstrate how these hidden agendas have manifested themselves in the historical accounts of Ḥaḍramī Islam with special reference to the rise of the Shāfi'ī madhhab and the dissemination of Ṣūfism. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1999 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-07), 215-222 1356-1863 9:2<215 1999 9 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300168531 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300168531 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Knysh Alexander NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-07), 215-222 1356-1863 9:2<215 1999 9 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge