The Epistle of the eloquent clarification concerning the refutation of Ibn Qutayba / by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān b. Muḥammad (d. 363/974) ; critical edition with an introduction by Avraham Hakim
Preface; Acknowledgements; Note to the Reader; Introduction; Abbreviations and Bibliography; Arabic Text with References and Index
Summary
This book offers an early Shiite/Fatimid controversy against Sunnite scholars in matter of Islamic law. Al-Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 363/974) refutes Ibn Qutayba's (d. 276/889) argument according to which succinct legal formulas exempt civil servants from the need of long dissertations of jurists