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This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's
articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and
Sects in Medieval Islam, and Religious and Ethnic Movements in
Medieval Islam). The first articles here examine legal and
political aspects of early Shi`ism. The following studies relate to
doctrinal views of the Zaydi imams al-Qasim b. Ibrahim al-Rassi and
al-Natiq bi-l-Haqq and to Zaydi attitudes to Sufism. The final
group focuses on the Isma`iliyya, their social and political
history and aspects of their religious thought. A detailed index
completes the volume.
This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's
articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and
Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval
Islam and Studies in Medieval ShAE"ism). The first sections contain
articles examining intellectual and historical aspects of
Mutazilism, the IbAE a iyya, aanafism and MAE turidism, Sufism and
Philosophy. The final group of articles focuses on aspects of early
Muslim history. A detailed index completes the volume.
The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting
phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic
philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy
are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most
twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic
philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the
twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently
underway in the field that, unlike other reference works, the
Oxford Handbook has striven to give roughly equal weight to every
century, from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook is also
unique in that its 30 chapters are work-centered rather than
person- or theme-centered, in particular taking advantage of recent
new editions and translations that have renewed interest and debate
around the Islamic philosophical canon. The Oxford Handbook of
Islamic Philosophy gives both the advanced student and active
scholar in Islamic philosophy, theology, and intellectual history,
a strong sense of what a work in Islamic philosophy looks like and
a deep view of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at
stake. Most importantly, it provides an up-to-date portrait of
contemporary scholarship on Islamic philosophy.
The most significant and by far largest collections of Zaydi
manuscripts are housed by the many public and private libraries of
Yemen, an endangered cultural heritage tradition, currently at risk
due to the conflict and warfare in Yemen. The contributions brought
together in this volume address a wide spectrum of aspects
concerning Yemeni manuscript cultures, with some focusing on their
history and present state within Yemen and others discussing the
collections of manuscripts of Yemeni provenance in Europe and
elsewhere.
This volume brings together contributions by scholars focussing on
peritextual elements as found in Middle Eastern manuscripts: dots
and various other symbols that mark vowels, intonation, readings
aids, and other textual markers; marginal notes and sigla that
provide additional explanatory content akin to but substantially
different from our modern notes and endnotes; images and
illustrations that present additional material not found in the
main text. These elements add additional layers to the main body of
the text and are crucial for our understanding of the text's
transmission history as well as scribal habits.
Iranian libraries hold only few manuscripts that testify to the
extended and intensive Mu'tazilite past in the various centers of
Zaydi scholarship in the Caspian region, in Hurasan, and in Rayy.
Among the few Mu'tazilite Zaydi works preserved in the libraries of
Iran is a miscellany held by the library of the Faculty of Medicine
at the University of Shiraz ('Allama Tabataba'i Library). The
maGmu'a, a facsimile of which is included in the present
publication, was written between 673/1274-75 and 676/1277 and
contains doctrinal works by Imami and Zaydi theologians from both
Iran and from Yemen. Most of the codex consists of a theological
summa, a ta'liq that had been composed or transcribed by one Abu
Tahir b. 'Ali al-Saffar which was based on the Kitab al-Usul by Abu
'Ali Muhammad b. Hallad al-Basri, the distinguished disciple of the
Mu'tazilite theologian and founder of the Bahsamiyya, Abu Hasim
al-Gubba'i (d. 321/933), with an unknown number of commentary
layers in between.
In 1934 the New York Public Library (NYPL) purchased a sizable
collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund
for Semitic literature that had been provided by Jacob Heinrich
Schiff. Ms New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives
Division, Arabic Manuscripts Collection, Volume 51985A, a facsimile
of which is included in the present publication, belongs to the
Shi'i material among the collection. It is a multitext volume of
269 leaves which in its present form comprises seven individual
works. It is hoped that the present facsimile edition will enable
and encourage scholars to delve into the materials it contains.
The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for
Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of
scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute
ever since. The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study
of the Near and Middle East at the Institute. The second part of
the volume consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars,
past and present, covering fields such as the ancient Near East and
early Islamic history, the Bible and the Qur'an, Islamic
intellectual history within and beyond denominational history,
Arabic and other Semitic languages and literatures, Islamic
religious and legal practices, law and society, the Islamic West,
the Ottoman world, Iranian studies, the modern Middle East, and
Islam in the West.
Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim
theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has
been achieved over the past decades with respect both to
discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the
field. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a
comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the
field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and
at the same time suggests new directions for future research. Part
One covers the various strands of Islamic theology during the
formative and early middle periods, rational as well as
scripturalist. To demonstrate the continuous interaction among the
various theological strands and its repercussions (during the
formative and early middle period and beyond), Part Two offers a
number of case studies. These focus on specific theological issues
that have developed through the dilemmatic and often polemical
interactions between the different theological schools and
thinkers. Part Three covers Islamic theology during the later
middle and early modern periods. One of the characteristics of this
period is the growing amalgamation of theology with philosophy
(Peripatetic and Illuminationist) and mysticism. Part Four
addresses the impact of political and social developments on
theology through a number of case studies: the famous mi?na
instituted by al-Ma'mun (r. 189/813-218/833) as well as the mihna
to which Ibn 'Aqil (d. 769/1367) was subjected; the religious
policy of the Almohads; as well as the shifting interpretations
throughout history (particularly during Mamluk and Ottoman times)
of the relation between Ash'arism and Maturidism that were often
motivated by political motives. Part Five considers Islamic
theological thought from the end of the early modern and during the
modern period.
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