Treatises on the Islamic firaq (Sects) and the Origin of Islamic kalām: Early Kufa-Baghdad Literature

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Salimi, Abdulrahman al-. 2024. « Treatises on the Islamic Firaq (Sects) and the Origin of Islamic kalām: Early Kufa-Baghdad Literature ». Studia Islamica 120 (1): 1-41. doi:10.1163/19585705-12341508, bibliographie, consulté le 31 mai 2025, https://www.ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/57712

Titre
Treatises on the Islamic firaq (Sects) and the Origin of Islamic kalām: Early Kufa-Baghdad Literature
Auteur
Salimi, Abdulrahman al-
Date
2025
Résumé
Abstract This study examines two late 2nd/8th century books that have been edited and published recently: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Fazārī (d. c.185/800)’s Kitāb al-Rudūd (The Book of Responses) and Ḍirār b. ʿAmr al-Ġaṭāfānī’s (d. c.200/810) Kitāb al-Taḥrīš (The Book of Provocation). Both texts shed light on the emergence of ʿilm al-kalām (scholastic theology) in early Islam and its relationship to books and treatises on the Islamic firaq (sects) – a relationship which until now has not been sufficiently examined. In comparing these two texts, we focus on the specific topics they share, the methodologies they use, and the technical terms they employ. We conclude that the emergence of ʿilm al-kalām, as well as the Islamic “contemplative disciplines” in general, occurred not primarily, as is often surmised, as a result of external Greek philosophical influence but rather as the result of a politico-theological debate that took place within Muslim communities. We also reconsider the nature of intellectual life during the early Abbasid period.
Langue
eng
volume
120
numéro
1
pages
1-41
doi
10.1163/19585705-12341508
issn
1958-5705, 0585-5292
Titre abrégé
Treatises on the Islamic firaq (Sects) and the Origin of Islamic kalām

Salimi, Abdulrahman al-. 2024. « Treatises on the Islamic Firaq (Sects) and the Origin of Islamic kalām: Early Kufa-Baghdad Literature ». Studia Islamica 120 (1): 1-41. doi:10.1163/19585705-12341508, bibliographie, consulté le 31 mai 2025, https://www.ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/57712

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