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Journal of Semitic Studies 2008 53(2):279-303; doi:10.1093/jss/fgn004
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lhringAli, Muhammad, and the ansar:the Issue of Succession

Maya Yazigi

University of British Columbia

This article investigates the nature of the support that the ansar showed towards lhringAli and Muhammad respectively, and whether it could in either case have been based on kinship. In particular, it considers whether the ansar were likely to have supported lhringAli for the succession at the death of Muhammad, and if so, whether their support for him would have been based on their kinship to him. The article argues that kinship could not have been a factor in the support that the ansar showed towards Muhammad at the time of his move to Yathrib, and could not have motivated the ansar in favour of lhringAli at the time of the death of Muhammad. It maintains instead that the ansar's later affinity towards lhringAli stemmed from their worsening circumstances over the period of the early caliphate, and from the feelings of frustration and alienation they came to share with him.


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