Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
Synopsis
Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, from the ninth through the fifteenth century CE, through a close study of manuscript materials. The book’s seventeen chapters are arranged under five rubrics: Muʿtazilism, Zaydism in Iran and in Yemen, Twelver Shīʿism, Mysticism, and Bibliogr aphical Traditions. The material included inthe book has been published previously in a different version. Theappearance of these studies together in a single volume makes thisbook a significant and welcome contribution to the field of classical Islamic Studies.
Chapters
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Table of Contents
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1. Muʿtazilism after ʿAbd al-ǦabbārAbū Rašīd al-Nīsābūrī’s K. Masāʾil al-Ḫilāf fī l-Uṣūl
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2. Muʿtazilism in Rayy and AstarābādAbū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. Šarwīn
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3. The Muʿtazilite and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s K. al-Muʿtamad fī Uṣūl al-FiqhA Bibliographical Note
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4. Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century (with Wilferd Madelung)
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5. The Zaydī Reception of Ibn Ḫallād’s K. al-UṣūlThe Taʿlīq of Abū Ṭāhir b. ʿAlī al-Ṣa ār
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6. Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abū l-Faḍl b. Šahrdawīr al-Daylamī al-Ǧīlānī and His Commentary on the Qurʾān
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7. The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen, Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries
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8. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemenī Zaydīs (I)The Formation of Imam al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim
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9. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II)The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī
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10. Between Aleppo and ṢaʿdaThe Zaydī Reception of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī
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11. Zaydī Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries (with Jan Thiele)
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12. Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century YemenʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī and His K. al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-Dīn
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13. The Twelver Šīʿī Reception of Muʿtazilism
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14. Al-Šayḫ al-ṬūsīHis Writings on Theology and Their Reception
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15. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī’s Muqaddama fī l-Madḫal ilā ʿIlm al-KalāmA Critical Edition
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16. Abū Saʿd al-Ḫargūšī and His K. al-LawāmiʿA Ṣūfī Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur
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17. Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies, with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525
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Bibliography (included with each chapter)
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Indexes
Published
April 17, 2018
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