The School of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq and the Abbasid Extraction: A Forensic Analysis of the Suppressed Origin of the Islamic Golden Age

The conventional historiography of the Islamic Golden Age locates its intellectual origin in the Abbasid translation movement at Bayt al-Hikma. This paper argues that this account suppresses a prior and structurally more fundamental layer: the school of the Sixth Imam, Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (702-765 CE), whose documented students included Jabir ibn Hayyan (father of chemistry), Abu Hanifa (founder of Hanafi fiqh), and Malik ibn Anas (founder of Maliki fiqh). The paper documents the Abbasid double game: patronising the Alid intellectual output while systematically eliminating the Imams. It deploys Henry Corbin's zahir-batin framework and the SCRA Ba'alist Capture Mechanism typology as analytical instruments. SCRA Working Paper 04. Published at: https://alvidscriptorium.com/research/sadiq-extraction/