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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
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Author
  1. Madelung, Wilferd.

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Additional authors
  1. Schmidtke, Sabine.
Description
  1. ix, 144 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 1570-078X ; v. 5
Uniform title
  1. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 5.
Subject
  1. Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1044
  2. Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1044
  3. Ḥasan al-Baṣrī al-
  4. Geschichte 1000-1050
  5. Islam > Doctrines
  6. Motazilites
  7. Karaites
  8. Islam > Relations > Judaism
  9. Judaism > Relations > Islam
  10. Interfaith relations
  11. Islam
  12. Islam > Doctrines
  13. Judaism
  14. Karaites
  15. Motazilites
  16. Mutasiliten
  17. Karäer
  18. Islamische Theologie
  19. Jüdische Theologie
  20. Arabisch
  21. Rationaliteit
  22. Geloof
  23. Moeʻtazilieten
  24. Mutasiliten
  25. Philosophie
  26. Islam > Relations > Judaism
  27. Judaism > Relations > Islam
Genre/Form
  1. Quelle.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. With Arabic original texts.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.