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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrʼs (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity, Damaris Wilmers provides the first extensive analysis of Ibn al-Wazīrʼs thought and its role in the “Sunnisation of the Zaydiyya”, emphasizing its significance for conflicts between schools of thought and law beyond the Yemeni context. Contrasting Ibn al-Wazīrʼs works with those of his Zaydi contemporary Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā, Damaris Wilmers offers a study of a number of heretofore unedited texts from 9th/15th century Yemen when Zaydi identity was challenged by an increasing theological and legal diversity. She shows how Ibn al-Wazīr, who has been classed with different schools, actually de-emphasized school affiliation and developed an integrative approach based on a unique theory of knowledge.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Life and Intellectual Environment of Ibn al-Wazīr and Ibn al-Murtaḍā 1 Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Wazīr’s (d. 840/1436) Biography 2 Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā (d. 840/1436) as a Scholar 3 Conclusion 2 Ibn al-Wazīr’s Works 1 Al-Amr bi-l-ʿuzla 2 Al-ʿAwāṣim wa-l-awāṣim 3 Al-Āyāt al-mubīnāt 4 Āyāt al-aḥkām al-sharʿiyya 5 Al-Burhān al-qāṭiʿ fī ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ 6 Al-Ḥusām al-mashhūr 7 Al-Istiẓhār bi-l-dalīl al-samʿī fī ʿadam wuqūʿ al-ṭalāq al-bidʿī 8 Īthār al-ḥaqq ʿalā l-khalq 9 Kitāb al-Qawāʿid 10 Kitāb fī l-tafsīr 11 Majmaʿ al-ḥaqāʾiq wa-l-raqāʾiq fī mamādiḥ rabb al-khalāʾiq 12 Manẓūma shiʿriyya fī uṣūl al-fiqh 13 Masāʾil arbaʿa tataʿallaq bi-l-muqallad wa-l-mustaftī 14 Masʾalat ikhtilāf al-Muʿtazila wa-l-Ashʿariyya fī ḥamd Allāh ʿalā l-īmān 15 Masāʾil mustakhrajāt 16 Masāʾil shāfiyāt 17 Masāʾil sharīfa 18 Mukhtaṣar mufīd fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīth 19 Muthīr al-aḥzān fī wadāʿ shahr Ramaḍān 20 Nuṣrat al-aʿyān 21 Qubūl al-bushrā bi-l-taysīr lil-yusrā 22 Al-Rawḍ al-bāsim 23 Al-Taʾdīb al-malakūtī 24 Taḥrīr al-kalām fī masʾalat al-ruʾya 25 Takhṣīṣ āyāt al-jumʿa 26 Tanqīḥ al-anẓār fī maʿrifat ʿulūm al-āthār 27 Tarjīḥ asālīb al-Qurʾān ʿalā asālīb al-Yūnān 28 Additional Works Ascribed to Ibn al-Wazīr 3 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Epistemological Thought 1 Definitions of Knowledge 2 Definitions of the Means to Possess Knowledge 3 The Proof of God’s Existence (ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ) 4 The Argument from the Absence of Evidence (al-istidlāl bi-l-ʿadam) 5 Conclusion 4 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Theological Thought 1 God’s Wisdom (ḥikma) as the Key to Harmonization 2 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Names (asmāʾ) and Attributes (ṣifāt) 3 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Will (irāda) 4 Harmonized Doctrine: Human Actions (afʿāl al-ʿibād) and Free Will (ikhtiyār) 5 Conclusion 5 The Structure of Legal Authority in Ibn al-Wazīr’s Thought 1 The Theory of Infallibilism and the Probability of Ijtihād 2 The Possibility of Ijtihād and the Existence of Mujtahids 3 Taqlīd and Concepts of Following 4 The Requirements (shurūṭ) for Ijtihād 5 Divisibility (tajazzuʾ) of Ijtihād and the Discerning Student (al-ṭālib al-mumayyiz) 6 Extrapolation of Principles (takhrīj) 7 The Muqallid’s Commitment to a Legal School (iltizām) 8 Conclusion 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index of Pre-Modern Authors Index of Geographical Names Index of Pre-Modern Books Index of Quran Citations Index of Arabic Terms
