E-Book, Arabisch, Band 4
Reihe: Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series
ISBN: 978-1-78374-969-0
Verlag: Open Book Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Kein
The texts from the Karaite library cover a remarkable spectrum of medieval literary genres and scholarly disciplines, spanning works by Jewish, Muslim and Christian authors, in both Hebrew and Arabic. As such, they provide unique access to an otherwise lost body of literature from the medieval Islamicate world.
This timely volume presents, for the first time, edited fragments of six texts by adherents of the Mu?tazila, a school of rational theology that emerged in the eighth century CE, including Karaite copies and recensions of works by Muslim authors, notably ?Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani and ?Abd Allah b. Sa?id al-Labbad, as well as original Jewish Mu?tazili treatises. The collection is concluded by an anonymous Rabbanite refutation of the highly influential polemical tract against Judaism, entitled If?am al-yahud.
This collection offers unprecedented insights into the intellectual crossroads between Muslims and Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. It will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars engaged with this period of history.