Studies in medieval Muslim thought and history

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Studies in medieval Muslim thought and history

Wilferd Madelung ; edited by Sabine Schmidtke

(Variorum collected studies series, CS1021)

Ashgate Variorum, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam and Studies in Medieval ShAE"ism). The first sections contain articles examining intellectual and historical aspects of Mutazilism, the IbAE a iyya, aanafism and MAE turidism, Sufism and Philosophy. The final group of articles focuses on aspects of early Muslim history. A detailed index completes the volume.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Preface
  • Part I Mu'tazilism: The theology of al-Zamakhshari
  • The late Mu'tazila and determinism: the philosophers' trap
  • Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's proof for the existence of God
  • Ibn al-Malahimi's refutation of the philosophers. Part II Ibadiyya: Abd Allah ibn Ibaa and the origins of the Ibaa iyya
  • Abd Allah ibn Ibaa 's 'second letter to Abd al-Malik'. Part III Hanafism and Maturidism: Abu l-Muin al-NasafAE" and Ashari theology
  • The westward migration of Hanafi scholars from Central Asia in the 11th to 13th centuries. Part IV Sufism: Yusuf al-HamadanAE" and the Naqsbandiyya
  • A treatise on the Imamate dedicated to Sultan Baybars I
  • To see all things through the sight of God: Naa(1)GBPir al-Din al-a(1)usi's attitude to Sufism. Part V Philosophy: Nasir ad-Din Tusi's ethics between philosophy, Shi'ism and Sufism
  • At-Taftazani und die Philosophie. Part VI History: Political horoscopes relating to late 9th-century 'Alids (co-author David Pingree)
  • The vigilante movement of Sahl b. Salama al-Khurasani and the origins of Hanbalism reconsidered
  • Abu 'Ubayda Ma'mar b. al-Muthanna as a historian
  • 'Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr the mulhid
  • Abu' l-'Amaytar the Sufiyani
  • Maslama b. Muharib: Umayyad historian
  • Was the Caliph al-Ma'mun a grandson of the sectarian leader Ustadhsis?
  • Rabia in the Jahiliyya and in early Islam
  • The four sisters are believers
  • Sayf b. 'Umar: Akhbari and ideological fiction writer
  • Indexes.

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  • NCID
    BB13980263
  • ISBN
    • 9781409450122
  • LCCN
    2012946086
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Farnham
  • Pages/Volumes
    1 v. (various pagings)
  • Size
    23 cm
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