Early Ibadi theology
Subtitle: new material on rational thought in Islam from the pen of al-Fazārī (2nd/8th century)
By: edited by Abdulrahman al-Salimi
Contributors: Al-Salimi, Abdulrahman, editor
Series: Islamic history and civilization -- volume 182; Islamic history and civilization -- v. 182.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: ara
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9789004399136; 9789004459571
Subjects: Ibadites; Early works to 1800; Doctrines
Work titles: Works
Description: "Al-Fazārī's writings are a unique source of information about Ibadi teachings on ʻilm al-kalām and the early development of this branch of religious knowledge. It is for this reason that scholars of Islamic theology are particularly interested in early Ibadi theology. In this volume newly discovered, re-edited texts by al-Fazārī are presented, with previously lacking fragments included, texts that had already begun to offer new perspectives on Islamic ʻilm al-kalām, and on its origins and the sources of its concepts and debating techniques. In their revised state these Ibadi texts represent a major contribution to scholastic theology. They demonstrate how their respective theological debates already took place at the beginning of the second/eighth century and how associated ideas, as well as related sects and treatises, remained current for some time afterwards, thereby contradicting earlier claims that these debates started in the third/ninth century"--
Notes: Includes indexes.

Text in Arabic; introduction in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Arabic texts: 1. The book of rebuttals = Kitāb al-rudūd; title: 2. The epistle to Abū Qudāma and Abū Khālid = Kitāb ilá Abī Qudāmah wa-Abī Khālid; title: 3. The book of legal opinions = Kitāb al-futyā; title: 4. The book of monotheism on the knowledge of God = Kitāb al-tawḥīd fī maʻrifat Allāh; title: 5. The book of divine expressions = Kitāb al-ʻibārāt al-ilāhīyah; title: 6. The book about matters on which ignorance is permissible and matters on which ignorance is impermissible = Kitāb mā yasaʻu jahluhu wa-mā lā yasaʻu jahluh; title: 7. The book on the attributes and characteristics = Kitāb al-asmāʼ wa-al-aḥkām; title: Index.