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Al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad Promoter of Rational Theology

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Al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad Promoter of Rational Theology

Two Mu'tazili kalam texts from the Cairo Geniza
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The volume contains critical editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Buyid vizier al-Sahib b. 'Abbad (d. 385/925), who is well known to have vigorously promoted the teaching of Mu'tazili theology throughout Buyid 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-Sahib's education policy on the contemporaneous Jewish community in Cairo. The longer treatise of al-Sahib of ca. 350/960, possibly his Kitab Nahj al-sabil fi usul al-din, appears to be the earliest Mu'tazili work preserved among the Jewish community. The second, briefer treatise also contains a commentary by 'Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadani (d. 415/1025).

Author Biography:

Wilferd Madelung is Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford (emeritus). Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Release date NZ
November 3rd, 2016
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Sabine Schmidtke
  • Edited by Wilferd Madelung
Country of Publication
Netherlands
Illustrations
5 Illustrations, color
Imprint
Brill
Publisher
Brill
Dimensions
160x240x13
ISBN-13
9789004323452
Product ID
25178025

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