| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project explored the roles and positions the putative kinfolk of the Prophet Muhammad held in Muslim societies, different dogmatic and jurisprudential stances regarding the special meaning of the Prophetic descent such people claimed, and the activities of the experts of their genealogies, that is, those who were expected to guarantee the authenticity of the descent claimed by those putative kinfolk of the Prophet. Most importantly, the research project uncovered that the activities of the genealogists from Shi‘i centers in Iraq in the 14th and the 15th centuries were deeply related with the strategy of the Shi‘i community at the time to promote its interests (“covert sectarianism”). This discovery significantly promotes our understanding of how dogmatic and jurisprudential understandings of the meaning of the Prophetic descent evolved over the related centuries.
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