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Book SynopsisThis 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 seventeen 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.
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Muʿtazilism
- 1. Muʿtazilism after ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār: Abū Rašīd al-Nīsābūrī’s K. Masāʾil al-Ḫilāf fī l-Uṣūl
- 2. Muʿtazilism in Rayy and Astarābād: Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. Šarwīn
- 3. The Muʿtazilite and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s K. al-Muʿtamadfī Usūl al-Fiqh A Bibliographical Note
- 4. Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century (with Wilferd Madelung)
Zaydism in Iran
- 5. The Zaydī Reception of Ibn Ḫallād’s K. al-Uṣūl:The Taʿlīq of Abū Ṭāhir b. ʿAlī al-Ṣa ār
- 6. Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abū l-Faḍl b. Šahrdawīr al-Daylamī al-Ǧīlānī and His Commentary on the Qurʾān
Zaydism in Yemen
- 7. The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen, Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries
- 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
- 9. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī
- 10. Between Aleppo and Ṣaʿda: The Zaydī Reception of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī
- 11. Zaydī Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries (with Jan Thiele)
- 12. Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemen: ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd
al-ʿAnsī and His K. al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-Dīn
Twelver Šīʿism
- 13. The Twelver Šīʿī Reception of Muʿtazilism
- 14. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception
- 15. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī’s Muqaddama fī l-Madḫal ilā ʿIlm al-Kalām: A Critical Edition
Mysticism
- 16. Abū Saʿd al-Ḫargūšī and His K. al-Lawāmiʿ A Ṣūfī Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur
Bibliographical Traditions
- 17. Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies, with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525
Bibliography
Indexes
- Personal Names
- Book Titles
- Place Names and Institutions
- Manuscripts
