Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication : Abu-I-Husayn Al-Basri's Mu'tazili Theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age.

By:

Madelung, Wilferd

Contributor(s):

Schmidtke, Sabine

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781281399427

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rational Theology in Interfaith CommunicationDDC classification:

297.2/0434092

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BP195.M6 -- M33 2006eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Text 1. Yūsuf al-Baṣrī's Refutation of Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī's Proof for the Existence of God -- Translation -- Arabic Text -- Text 2. Excerpt from Part Two of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Responsa to ʿAlī b. Sulaymān al-Maqdisī -- Translation -- Arabic Text -- Text 3. Excerpt from Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Book of Intimation -- Translation -- Arabic Text -- Text 4. Excerpt from the Book of Revision of the Book of Aristotle on Metaphysics by Sahl b. Faḍl al-Tustarī -- Translation -- Arabic Text -- Facsimiles -- Facsimile (RNL II Firk. Yevr.-Arab. I 3118) -- Facsimile (RNL II Firk. Arab 119, fols. 1-6) -- Facsimile (BL Or 2572, fols. 38a-41b) -- Facsimile (BL Or 2572, fols. 47b-52b).

Summary: The Mu'tazila was a rationalist school of Islamic theology and one of the important streams of Islamic thought. Its beginnings were in the eighth century and its "classic" period of development was from the latter part of the ninth century until the middle of the eleventh. During these four centuries, the theological movement of the Mu'tazila played a major role in the Islamic intellectual scene. Over time it fell out of favor in Sunni Islam and had largely disappeared by the fourteenth century. It is mainly due to the reception of Mu'tazili thought by the Imamis and the Zaydis within Shi'ism, as well as by Rabbanite and particularly Karaite Jews, that we are relatively well informed today about Mu'tazili doctrines and even have access to a significant quantity of authentic textual materials. The book contains editions, translations, and an analytical introduction of Karaite Mu'tazili texts of the late Fatimid period that were hitherto unknown and that shed fresh light in the reception of Mu'tazili thought among the Karaites.

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The Mu'tazila was a rationalist school of Islamic theology and one of the important streams of Islamic thought. Its beginnings were in the eighth century and its "classic" period of development was from the latter part of the ninth century until the middle of the eleventh. During these four centuries, the theological movement of the Mu'tazila played a major role in the Islamic intellectual scene. Over time it fell out of favor in Sunni Islam and had largely disappeared by the fourteenth century. It is mainly due to the reception of Mu'tazili thought by the Imamis and the Zaydis within Shi'ism, as well as by Rabbanite and particularly Karaite Jews, that we are relatively well informed today about Mu'tazili doctrines and even have access to a significant quantity of authentic textual materials. The book contains editions, translations, and an analytical introduction of Karaite Mu'tazili texts of the late Fatimid period that were hitherto unknown and that shed fresh light in the reception of Mu'tazili thought among the Karaites.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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