Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions

✍ Scribed by Hassan Ansari

• Publisher: Lockwood Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 509
• Series: Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies, 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, from the ninth to the fifteenth century CE, through a close study of manuscript materials. The book's sixteen chapters are arranged under five rubrics: Mu'tazilism, Zaydism in Iran and in Yemen, Twelver Shi'ism, Mysticism, and Bibliographical Traditions. The appearance of these studies together in a single volume makes this book a significant and welcome contribution to the field of classical Islamic Studies. Th

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Figures and Tables
Series Editors’ Preface
Preface
Mu.tazilism
Chapter One Mu.tazilism after .Abd al-Gabbar: Abu Rašid al-Nisaburi’s K. Masa.il al-.ilaf fi l-U.ul
Chapter 2 Mu.tazilism in Rayy and Astarabad: Abu l-Fa.l al-.Abbas b. Šarwin
Chapter 3 The Mu.tazilite and Zaydi Reception of Abu l-.usayn al-Ba.ri’s K. al-Mu.tamad fi U.ul al-Fiqh: A Bibliographical Note
Chapter 4 Yusuf al-Ba.ir’s Rebuttal of Abu l-.usayn al-Ba.ri in a Yemeni Zaydi Manuscript of the Seventh/ Thirteenth Century
Zaydism in Iran
Chapter 5 The Zaydi Reception of Ibn .allad’s K. al-U.ul: The Ta.liq of Abu .ahir b. .Ali al-.affar
Chapter 6 Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abu l-Fa.l b. Šahrdawir al-Daylami al-Gilani and His Commentary
Zaydism in Yemen
Chapter 7
The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī
Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen,
Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries
Chapter 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
Chapter 9
The Literary-Religious Tradition among
Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II):
The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī
Chapter 10
Between Aleppo and Ṣaʿda: The Zaydī Reception
of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī
Chapter 11 Zaydi Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries
Chapter 12
Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century
Yemen: ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī and His
Kitāb al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-Dīn
Twelver Ši.ism
Chapter 13 The Twelver Ši.i Reception of Mu.tazilism
Chapter 14 Al-Šay. al-.usi: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception
Chapter 15 Al-Šay. al-.usi’s Muqaddama fi l-Mad.al ila .Ilm al-Kalam: A Critical Edition
Mysticism
Chapter 16 Abu Sa.d al-.arguši and His Kitab al-Lawami.: A .ufi Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur
Bibliographical Traditions
Chapter 17
Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies,
with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek
zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525
Bibliography
Indexes