Rational theology in interfaith communication
Subtitle: Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age
By: by Wilferd Madelung and Sabine Schmidtke.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9789004151772
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.