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Rational theology in interfaith communication : Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age

Title: Rational theology in interfaith communication : Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age / by Wilferd Madelung and Sabine Schmidtke.
Author: Madelung, Wilferd.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Schmidtke, Sabine.

Description

ix, 144 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"The present study presents evidence that Abu l-Husayn's theology was immediately registered and controversially debated in the Karaite community under the Fatimid caliphate. The study is based on source material preserved in Genizahs and now dispersed in libraries around the world."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 1570-078X ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 5.

Subject

Genre/Form

Quelle.

Note

With Arabic original texts.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Yūsuf al-Baṣīr's Refutation of Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī's Proof for the existence of God -- Excerpt from part two of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Maqdisiyāt -- Excerpt from Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Book of intimation (Kitāb al-talwīḥ ilā l-tawḥīd wa l-ʻadl) -- Excerpt from the Book of revision of the Book of Aristotle on metaphysics by Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī -- Facsimiles.

ISBN

9789004151772
900415177X

LCCN

2007295532

OCLC

ocm76809282
76809282
SCSB-1430405

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library