Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33064-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, Band 133, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

In Ibadi Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ibadi religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Ibadis constitutes the moderate wing of the Kharijite opposition movement to the Umayyad and ‘Abbasid caliphates. The texts edited are mostly polemical letters to opponents or exhortatory to followers by ‘Abd Allah b. Ibad, Abu l-‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abi Karima and other Ibadi leaders in Basra, Oman and Hadramawt. An epistle detailing the offences of the caliph ‘Uthman is by the early Kufan historiographer al-Haytham b. ‘Adi. By their early date and independence of the mainstream historical tradition these txts offer the modern historian of Islam an invaluable complement to the well-known literary sources.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madelung, Wilferd

Al-Salimi, Abdulrahman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1- The Introduction.
2- The Texts
a. Letter of ‘Abd Allah b. Ibad to ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan.
b. Ibad’s second letter to ‘Abd al-Malik.
c. Epistle of Abu Mawdud Hajib.
d. Letter of Muslim Abu ‘Ubayda and Hajib to the people of the Maghrib when they disagreed concerning the matter of ‘Abd al-Jabbar and al-Harith such that they killed each other.
e. Epistle of Abu ‘Ubayda and Abu Mawdud.
f. Epistle of Abu ‘Ubayda and Abi Mawdud to al-Fadl b. Kathir.
g. A letter of Abu ‘Ubayda.
h. Epistle of Abu ‘Ubayda about the alms tax.
i. Epistle of Shabib b. ‘Atiyya al-‘Umani.
j. Letter of Shabib b. ‘Atiyya to ‘Abd al-Salam against the Doubters and the Murji’a.
k. Epistle of Khalaf b. Ziyad al-Bahrani.
l. Epistle of the Jurist Sheikh Wa’il b. Ayyub.
m. Book in which there is a reply to the people of uncertainty.
n. Epitome of a book in which there is the description of the offences of ‘Uthman b. ‘Affan.

Über Autor(innen)

Wilferd Madelung, D. Phil. 1957, University of Hamburg, is emeritus Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford University. He has extensively written on early Islamic history, religious movements and schools of thought, and is the author of The Succession to Muhammad (Cambridge, 1997).

Abdulrahman al-Salimi (Ph.D. Durham 2001) is the editor in chief of the Omani journal al-Tafahom. He has published on Omani studies and early Islamic theology.