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In Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ibāḍī religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Ibāḍīs constitutes the moderate wing of the Kharijite opposition movement to the Umayyad and ‘Abbasid caliphates. The texts edited are mostly polemical letters to opponents or exhortatory to followers by ‘Abd Allah b. Ibad , Abu l-‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abi Karima and other Ibadi leaders in Basra, Oman and Hadramawt. An epistle detailing the offences of the caliph ‘Uthman is by the early Kufan historiographer al-Haytham b. ‘Adi. 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.
Price: $151.00
Pages: 392
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic History and Civilization
Publication Date:
14 December 2017
ISBN: 9789004330641
Format: Hardcover
"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 Ibāḍī 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 Ibāḍī 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 Ibāḍī 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 Ibāḍī texts."
Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)
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), Baṣran Muʿtazilite Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2011), Early Ibāḍī Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014), Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād 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 Ibāḍī 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 Ibāḍī Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2017).