Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿabbād Promoter of Rational Theology

Two Muʿtazilī Kalām Texts from the Cairo Geniza
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32345-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 132, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madelung, Wilferd

Schmidtke, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

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.