Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād Promoter of Rational Theology
Two Muʿtazilī kalām texts from the Cairo Geniza
Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād Promoter of Rational Theology
Two Muʿtazilī kalām texts from the Cairo Geniza
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Description
The volume contains editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyid vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/925). The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from Cairo Geniza store rooms.
"This is certainly a book of interest for the students of Mutazilite theology as well as for those interested in the cultural context and content of the era of the Buyid Dynasty." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)
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.
"This is certainly a book of interest for the students of Mutazilite theology as well as for those interested in the cultural context and content of the era of the Buyid Dynasty." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018)
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.