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Author Madelung, Wilferd.

Title 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 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 144 pages)
Series Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 1570-078X ; v. 5
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 5. 1570-078X
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1044.
SUBJECT Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1044 fast
Subject Islam -- Doctrines.
Motazilites.
Karaites.
Islam -- Relations -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Relations -- Islam.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islam -- Doctrines
Judaism
Karaites
Motazilites
Islamische Theologie
Karäer
Mutasiliten
Rationaliteit.
Geloof.
Moeʻtazilieten.
Genre/Form Quelle.
Form Electronic book
Author Schmidtke, Sabine.
ISBN 9781435657823
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