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al-Sahib ibn 'Abbad, promoter of rational theology : two Mu'tazili kalam texts from the Cairo Geniza / edited by Wilferd Madelung Sabine Schmidtke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Islamic History and Civilization 132.
- Islamic history and civilization ; v. 132
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motazilites--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Motazilites.
- Islam--Theology--Early works to 1800.
- Islam.
- Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, 936-995.
- Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The volume contains critical editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyid vizier al-Ṣāḥib born ʿAbbād (d. 385/925), who is well known to have vigorously promoted the teaching of Muʿtazilī theology throughout Būyid territories and beyond. The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from Cairo Geniza store rooms. They consist of two manuscripts for each of the two texts—testimony to the impact of al-Ṣāḥib’s education policy on the contemporaneous Jewish community in Cairo. The longer treatise of al-Ṣāḥib of circa 350/960, possibly his Kitāb Nahj al-sabīl fī uṣūl al-dīn , appears to be the earliest Muʿtazilī work preserved among the Jewish community. The second, briefer treatise also contains a commentary by ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadānī (d. 415/1025).
- Contents:
- Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād, Promoter of Rational Theology: Two Muʿtazilī kalām Texts from the Cairo Geniza / Wilferd Madelung and Sabine Schmidtke.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Contains:
- Ṣāḥib al-Ṭālqānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād, 936-995. Nahj al-sabīl fī al-uṣūl.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-32373-2
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004323735 DOI
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