Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Murtada; Susanna Diwald-Wilzer ed

DIE KLASSEN DER MU'TAZILITEN von Ahmad Ibn Yahya Ibn Al-Murtada [Bab dhikr al-mu'tazil wa-tabaqatihim] (Bibliotheca Islamica 21)

Imprimerie Catholique, 1961. Paperback. xx, 191pp. Arabic text with critical aparatus, Introduction in German. 8vo, sewn binding in publisher's printed wraps, deckled edges. Some light wear and toning around the edges of the wrappers, very clean and sound otherwise. 'This new edition (first edited by T. W. Arnold, Lahore, 1902) will be welcomed by students of Islam. Better edited, better printed, and on better paper, it is also furnished with & more elaborate scholarly apparatus. In place of the brief and factual introduction of the first edition, the present one offers some discussion of the subject; where the first edition contained two indexes, of persons and of books, the present edition offers five more, dealing with references, Qur'anic verses, place-names, sects, and technical terms. ... The author of the work, Ahmad b. Yahya al-Murtada, was a Zaidi imam. Born in 764/1363, he became imam for a year in 793-4, was deposed and imprisoned, and died in Zafar in 840/1437 (pp. 5, xii). The work, the body of which is contained in 140 pages dealing with the classes of the Mutazila and other persons and problems connected with them, is of value both for its use of some unknown sources and for its interesting approach to itizal and the Mutazila.' (Osman S. A. Isma'il review in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies). NEAR FINE. Item #506726

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