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https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb A Common Rationality: Mutazilism in Islam and Judaism https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb ISTANBULER TEXTE UND STUDIEN HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM ORIENT-INSTITUT ISTANBUL BAND 15 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb A Common Rationality: Mutazilism in Islam and Judaism edited by Camilla Adang Sabine Schmidtke David Sklare WÜRZBURG 2016 ERGON VERLAG WÜRZBURG IN KOMMISSION https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb Umschlaggestaltung: Taline Yozgatian Umschlagbild: Beginn des zweiten Teils der Responsa des Sahl b. al-Fal al-Tustar an Al" b. 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Ergon-Verlag GmbH Keesburgstr. 11, D-97074 Würzburg https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb Table of Contents List of Contributors ................................................................................................7 Introduction Camilla Adang, Sabine Schmidtke, David Sklare ......................................................11 Ab Al" al-Jubb" et son livre al-Maqlt Hassan Ansari.........................................................................................................21 Abu l-Qsim al-Balkh" al-KaMb"’s Doctrine of the Imma Racha el-Omari........................................................................................................39 Al-Frb" und die Mutazila Ulrich Rudolph.........................................................................................................59 Ibn al-Khalll al-Bar" and His Œuvre on the Problematic Verses of the Qurn Kitb al-Radd al al-jabriyya al-qadariyya (Refutation of the Predestinarian Compulsionists) Suleiman A. Mourad...............................................................................................81 Maqla f l-radd al l-Mujbira (MS Najaf) attributed to Abd al-Jabbr al-Hamadhn" Hans Daiber..........................................................................................................101 Abd al-Jabbr al-Hamadhn" on Body, Soul and Resurrection Margaretha T. Heemskerk.......................................................................................127 Levi ben Yefet and his Kitb al-Nima. Selected Texts David Sklare .........................................................................................................157 Zum textlichen Verhältnis zwischen Kitb al-Tamyz von Ysuf al-Ba"r und der hebräischen Übersetzung Sefer Makimat Peti am Beispiel der Schlusskapitel des ersten Hauptteils Wolfgang von Abel.................................................................................................217 Ysuf al-Ba"r’s First Refutation (Naq#) of Abu l-usayn al-Bar"’s Theology Wilferd Madelung & Sabine Schmidtke..................................................................229 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS A rare case of biblical “testimonies” to the Prophet Muammad in Mutazil" literature: Quotations from Ibn Rabban al-abar"’s Kitb al-Dn wa-l-Dawla in Abu l-usayn al-Bar"’s Ghurar al-adilla, as preserved in a work by al-imma" al-Rz" Camilla Adang......................................................................................................297 Ibn al-Malim"’s Refutation of the Philosophers Wilferd Madelung..................................................................................................331 Al-Barhn al-hira al-jaliyya al anna l-wujd zid al l-mhiyya by usm al-D"n Ab Muammad al-asan b. Muammad al-Ras Hassan Ansari.......................................................................................................337 Mutazilitische Tendenzen im Kitb a-abb des Samaritaners Abu l-asan a-r" Gerhard Wedel .......................................................................................................349 Mutazil" Manuscripts in the Abraham Firkovitch Collection, St. Petersburg. A Descriptive Catalogue Sabine Schmidtke ................................................................................................... 377 Mutazil" Theory in Practice: The Repentance (tawba) of Government Officials in the 4th/10th century Maurice A. Pomerantz...........................................................................................463 Between Mutazilism and Mysticism. How much of a Mutazilite is Nar mid Ab Zayd? Thomas Hildebrandt ..............................................................................................495 Index ....................................................................................................................513 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb List of Contributors Camilla ADANG is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her fields of specialization include interreligious polemics and classical Islamic religious thought. She is the author of Islam frente a Judaismo. La polémica de Ibn azm de Córdoba (Madrid 1994) and Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm (Leiden 1996) and is currently preparing a monograph on the creed of Ibn azm. Hassan ANSARI is currently a doctoral candidate at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He is a specialist in classical Islamic theology, particularly Zayd" and Twelver Sh"M", and has published numerous articles on manuscript dis- coveries, particularly in Yemen and India. His publications include (with Sabine Schmidtke) Khulat al-naar. An anonymous Imm-Mutazil Treatise (late 6th/12th or early 7th/13th century). Edited with an introduction (Tehran 2006). Together with Wilferd Madelung and Sabine Schmidtke, he is at present preparing a critical edition of Ibn al-Malim"’s Tufat al-mutakallimn f l-radd al l-falsifa. Hans DAIBER was Professor of Oriental Languages at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civi- lization, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has published extensively on Islamic phi- losophy and theology, on Greek-Syriac-Arabic-Latin translations and on the his- tory of sciences and literature. He is the editor of the series “Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science” and “Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus”. His works include Das theologisch-philosophische System des Muammar Ibn Abbd as-Sulam (gest. 830 n. Chr.) (Beirut / Wiesbaden 1975) and Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy (Leiden 1999). Margaretha T. HEEMSKERK was Lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. Her main research interest is the Mutazila, with a special focus on the Bahshamiyya. She has published Suffering in the Mutazilite Theology. Abd al-Jabbr’s Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice (Leiden 2000) and is currently preparing the edition of Volume Four of Ibn Mattawayh’s Kitb al- Majm f l-Mu bi-l-taklf. Thomas HILDEBRANDT is Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies and coordi- nator of the Graduate Program “Anthropological Foundations and Develop- ments in Christianity and Islam” at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. His PhD dissertation (Bamberg 2005), devoted to the so-called “Neo-Mutazila”, has been published as Neo-Mutazila? Intention und Kontext im modernen arabischen Umgang mit dem rationalistischen Erbe des Islam (Leiden 2007). Wilferd MADELUNG was for twenty years Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and is currently affiliated with The Institute of Ismaili https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506895, am 28.09.2021, 11:18:41 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb 8 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Studies as Senior Research Fellow. He has made significant contributions to modern scholarship on medieval Islamic movements and communities, includ- ing Zaydism, Twelver Sh"Mism and Ism"lism and the early Islamic theological movements. His publications include Der Imam al-Qsim ibn Ibrhm und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen