Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 281-295
Keywords:
Muhammad,
;
Bible Islamic interpretations
;
Zaydīs
;
Islamic literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Like the Zaydīs of Iran, the Zaydī theologians of the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries in Yemen also regularly adduced scriptural passages which they interpreted as testimonies to Muḥammad.The earliest Zaydī author of Yemen to include biblical materials in his writings is Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Raṣṣāṣ (b. 546/1151–52, d. 584/1188). Al-Raṣṣāṣ was the leading theologian during the second half of the sixth/twelfth century and had written numerous substantial works on the subtleties of kalām as well as a theological summa, Kitāb al-Taḥṣīl fī l-tawḥīd wa-l-taʿdīl. Theologically, he was a staunch supporter of the doctrines of the Bahšamiyya....
Note:
Appeared previously in "Orientalia Christiana Analecta" 293 (2013) 221-240.
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.19
URL:
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