Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions

Hassan Ansari is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with a PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) of the Sorbonne, Paris. His publications include Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfir (edited with. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, and Sabine Schmidtke; (2015), L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes (2017), and a critical edition of Ibn al-Malahimi's Tuhfat al-mutakallimin fi l-radd 'ala l-falasifa (2008, with Wilferd Madelung). Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

Table of ContentsMuʿtazilism
 




1. Muʿtazilism after ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār: Abū Rašīd al-Nīsābūrī’s K. Masāʾil al-Ḫilāf fī l-Uṣūl
2. Muʿtazilism in Rayy and Astarābād: Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. Šarwīn
3. The Muʿtazilite and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s K. al-Muʿtamadfī Usūl al-Fiqh A Bibliographical Note
4. Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century (with Wilferd Madelung)







Zaydism in Iran




5. The Zaydī Reception of Ibn Ḫallād’s K. al-Uṣūl:The Taʿlīq of Abū Ṭāhir b. ʿAlī al-Ṣa ār
6. Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abū l-Faḍl b. Šahrdawīr al-Daylamī al-Ǧīlānī and His Commentary on the Qurʾān







Zaydism in Yemen




7. The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen, Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries
8. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemenī Zaydīs (I): The Formation of Imam al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim
9. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī
10. Between Aleppo and Ṣaʿda: The Zaydī Reception of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī
11. Zaydī Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries (with Jan Thiele)
12. Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemen: ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd
al-ʿAnsī and His K. al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-Dīn







Twelver Šīʿism




13. The Twelver Šīʿī Reception of Muʿtazilism
14. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception
15. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī’s Muqaddama fī l-Madḫal ilā ʿIlm al-Kalām: A Critical Edition


 


Mysticism




16. Abū Saʿd al-Ḫargūšī and His K. al-Lawāmiʿ A Ṣūfī Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur


 


Bibliographical Traditions




17. Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies, with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525







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