In Iba?i Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Iba?i religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Iba?is 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.
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"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 Iba?i 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 Iba?i texts."
Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N degrees 1-2 (2019)
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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), Ba?ran Mu?tazilite Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2011), Early Ibad?i Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014), Al-?a?ib Ibn ?Abbad 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 Ibad?i Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
1- The Introduction.
2- The Texts
a. Letter of 'Abd Allah b. Iba? to 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan.
b. Iba?'s second letter to 'Abd al-Malik.
c. Epistle of Abu Mawdud ?ajib.
d. Letter of Muslim Abu 'Ubayda and ?ajib to the people of the Maghrib when they disagreed concerning the matter of 'Abd al-Jabbar and al-?arith such that they killed each other.
e. Epistle of Abu 'Ubayda and Abu Mawdud.
f. Epistle of Abu 'Ubayda and Abi Mawdud to al-Fa?l b. Kathir.
g. A letter of Abu 'Ubayda.
h. Epistle of Abu 'Ubayda about the alms tax.
i. Epistle of Shabib b. 'A?iyya al-'Umani.
j. Letter of Shabib b. 'A?iyya to 'Abd al-Salam against the Doubters and the Murji'a.
k. Epistle of Khalaf b. Ziyad al-Ba?rani.
l. Epistle of the Jurist Sheikh Wa'il b. Ayyub.
m. Book in which there is a reply to the people of uncertainty.
n. Epitome of a book in which there is the description of the offences of 'Uthman b. 'Affan.
