Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 203-227
Keywords:
Muhammad,
;
Bible Islamic interpretations
;
Bible Evidences, authority, etc.
;
History
;
Motazilites
;
Islamic literature History and criticism
Abstract:
The text presented in the following pages is a chapter from al-Munqiḏ min al-taqlīd,¹ a compendium of Muʿtazilite theology composed in the year 581/1185 by the Imāmī Muʿtazilite Sadīd al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan al-Ḥimmaṣī al-Rāzī, who died after 600/1204.² The chapter that is edited and translated here deals with the biblical passages that were adduced by Muslims as proof of the veracity of the prophethood of Muḥammad.³ It is of great scholarly interest for a number of reasons. First of all, it contains extensive quotations from a work, now lost, by the well-known Muʿtazilite theologian Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī...
Note:
Appeared previously in "A Common Rationality; Mu'tazilism in Islam and Judaism" (2007) 297-330.
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.16
URL:
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