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IbÄá¸Ä« Texts from the 2nd/8th Century
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 133
In IbÄá¸Ä« Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen IbÄá¸Ä« religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The IbÄá¸Ä«s constitutes the moderate wing of the Kharijite opposition movement to the Umayyad and âAbbasid caliphates. The texts edited are mostly polemical letters to opponents or exhortatory to followers by âAbd Allah b. Ibad , Abu l-âUbayda Muslim b. Abi Karima and other Ibadi leaders in Basra, Oman and Hadramawt. An epistle detailing the offences of the caliph âUthman is by the early Kufan historiographer al-Haytham b. âAdi. By their early date and independence of the mainstream historical tradition these txts offer the modern historian of Islam an invaluable complement to the well-known literary sources.
Wilferd Madelung, D. Phil. 1957, University of Hamburg, is emeritus Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford University. He has written extensively on early Islamic history, religious movements and schools of thought, and is the author of The Succession to Muhammad (Cambridge, 1997), and co-editor of An Ismaili Heresiography (Leiden: Brill, 1998), Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication (Leiden: Brill, 2006), Baá¹£ran MuÊ¿tazilite Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2011), Early IbÄḍī Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014), Al-á¹¢Äḥib Ibn Ê¿AbbÄd Promoter of Rational Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2016) and the Encyclopaedia Islamica (Leiden: Brill).
Abdulrahman al-Salimi (Ph.D. Durham 2001) is the editor in chief of the Omani journal al-Tafahom. He has published on Omani studies and early Islamic theology and is the author of Ibadism in East Mesopotamia. Early Islamic Iran, Central Asia and India (Beirut: German Oriental Institute, 2016) and co-editor of Early IbÄḍī Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
Abdulrahman al-Salimi (Ph.D. Durham 2001) is the editor in chief of the Omani journal al-Tafahom. He has published on Omani studies and early Islamic theology and is the author of Ibadism in East Mesopotamia. Early Islamic Iran, Central Asia and India (Beirut: German Oriental Institute, 2016) and co-editor of Early IbÄḍī Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
"Researchers and students of Islamic intellectual history will be grateful for having more material to make sense of the classical period of Islamic theological traditions."
Sajjad Rizvi in: The Muslim World Book Review, 40:3, 2020
"The scientific edition of these fourteen early IbÄá¸Ä« texts, all from the 2nd/8th century, together in one book, constitutes a welcome addition to the growing body of newly edited and published old IbÄá¸Ä« texts."
Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)
Sajjad Rizvi in: The Muslim World Book Review, 40:3, 2020
"The scientific edition of these fourteen early IbÄá¸Ä« texts, all from the 2nd/8th century, together in one book, constitutes a welcome addition to the growing body of newly edited and published old IbÄá¸Ä« texts."
Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)
1- The Introduction.
2- The Texts
a. Letter of âAbd AllÄh b. IbÄḠto âAbd al-Malik b. MarwÄn.
b. IbÄá¸âs second letter to âAbd al-Malik.
c. Epistle of AbÅ« MawdÅ«d ḤÄjib.
d. Letter of Muslim AbÅ« âUbayda and ḤÄjib to the people of the Maghrib when they disagreed concerning the matter of âAbd al-JabbÄr and al-ḤÄrith such that they killed each other.
e. Epistle of AbÅ« âUbayda and AbÅ« MawdÅ«d.
f. Epistle of AbÅ« âUbayda and AbÄ« MawdÅ«d to al-Faá¸l b. KathÄ«r.
g. A letter of AbÅ« âUbayda.
h. Epistle of AbÅ« âUbayda about the alms tax.
i. Epistle of ShabÄ«b b. âAá¹iyya al-âUmÄnÄ«.
j. Letter of ShabÄ«b b. âAá¹iyya to âAbd al-SalÄm against the Doubters and the Murjiâa.
k. Epistle of Khalaf b. ZiyÄd al-BaḥrÄnÄ«.
l. Epistle of the Jurist Sheikh WÄâil b. AyyÅ«b.
m. Book in which there is a reply to the people of uncertainty.
n. Epitome of a book in which there is the description of the offences of âUthmÄn b. âAffÄn.
2- The Texts
a. Letter of âAbd AllÄh b. IbÄḠto âAbd al-Malik b. MarwÄn.
b. IbÄá¸âs second letter to âAbd al-Malik.
c. Epistle of AbÅ« MawdÅ«d ḤÄjib.
d. Letter of Muslim AbÅ« âUbayda and ḤÄjib to the people of the Maghrib when they disagreed concerning the matter of âAbd al-JabbÄr and al-ḤÄrith such that they killed each other.
e. Epistle of AbÅ« âUbayda and AbÅ« MawdÅ«d.
f. Epistle of AbÅ« âUbayda and AbÄ« MawdÅ«d to al-Faá¸l b. KathÄ«r.
g. A letter of AbÅ« âUbayda.
h. Epistle of AbÅ« âUbayda about the alms tax.
i. Epistle of ShabÄ«b b. âAá¹iyya al-âUmÄnÄ«.
j. Letter of ShabÄ«b b. âAá¹iyya to âAbd al-SalÄm against the Doubters and the Murjiâa.
k. Epistle of Khalaf b. ZiyÄd al-BaḥrÄnÄ«.
l. Epistle of the Jurist Sheikh WÄâil b. AyyÅ«b.
m. Book in which there is a reply to the people of uncertainty.
n. Epitome of a book in which there is the description of the offences of âUthmÄn b. âAffÄn.