In Ib Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ib religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Ib s 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...
In Ib Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ib religious texts and e...
The manuscript of the Aqw l Qat da has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the early development of the Ib Basran community and the emergence of Islamic jurisprudence in Iraq. It is a unique document because it attests to the existence of a scholarly link between Sunn s and Ib s during the early development of Islamic law. The fact that the legal responsa and traditions of Qat da b. Di ma al-Sad s (60/680-117/735) are part of an Ib collection, in which the traditions of Ib Imam J bir b. Zayd (d....
The manuscript of the Aqw l Qat da has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the ea...
