Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Besides the secession of the Nukkāriyya and the Ìalafīyya, the Rustamid imam Aflah{dot bellow} (c. 823-871) had to face naffāt⊆ b. nas{dot bellow}r 's dissidence. After he was refused the function of Qant{dot beoow}rāra's governor, Naffāt⊆ publicly slandered Aflah{dot bellow} whom he mostly blamed for his expensive tastes and his lack of combativeness towards the Aġlabids. The anti-Rustamid propaganda of Naffāt⊆ quickly attracted a lot of Ibād{dot bellow}īs to the Jarīd as well as to the Jabal Nafūsa. That enthusiasm just shows how, already during Aflah's reign, the Rustamid authority was a subject of controversy among the Ibād{dot bellow}īs. Although it never caused an armed revolt, that schism really worried the Rustamid leaders. This article gathers all the facts concerning Naffāt⊆ in the Ibād{dot bellow}īsources and tries to reconstruct his life and to draw up the list of the new opinions he proposed. The Naffāt⊆iyya movement is very interesting, on account of both its longevity and its geographical expansion, as well as for the great number of documents dealing with it. Those documents that appear throughout the centuries in the Ibād{dot bellow}īsources allow to understand better the personality of Naffāt⊆ b. Nasr, who was an intellectual rather than the leader of an organized movement. |
