The Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification Concerning the Refutation of Ibn Qutayba by Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān b. Muḥammad (d. 363/974)

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

Approx. 200 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

Arabic, English

Biographical note

Avraham Hakim, Ph.D. (2003), University of Tel-Aviv, is lecturer on Islam and professor of Arabic at the School for Overseas Students, Tel-Aviv University. He has published extensively on the early Muslim caliphate, especially on 'Umar b. al-Khattab.

Readership

All those interested in the history of early Ismailism (Fatimid), early Shiite law, Shiite-Sunnite controversy, the shiite concept of the imamte.

Introduction
1. The manuscripts
1a. MS 1255 – The Zāhid ʿAlī collection
1b. The Fyzee Manuscript
2. The epistle
3. The motivation for the epistle’s composition
4. The date of the epistle’s composition
5. Partial translation into English and analysis of the epistle’s introduction
5.1 fol. 2a: The tutor and the Fatimid caliph's sons
5.2 Fols 2a – 2b: Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's intervention
5.3 Fols. 2b – 3b Ibn Qutayba's legal formulas
5.4 Fols. 3b – 4b Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's arguments against his opponent
5.5 Fols. 4b – 7a: The importance of the Jurists' dissertations
5.6 Fols. 7a – 8b: The refutation of contemporary Mālikite scholars
6. Conclusion: The total refutation of Ibn Qutayba and his Adab al-Kātib
7. Editing the text
Abbreviations and Bibliography for the introduction

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