MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to Zaydī Kalām-studies during the Ṭāhirid and Early Qāsimite Periods (mid-15th to early 18th centuries)

Schwarb, Gregor (2015): MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to Zaydī Kalām-studies during the Ṭāhirid and Early Qāsimite Periods (mid-15th to early 18th centuries). In: Hollenberg, David; Rauch, Christoph und Schmidtke, Sabine (Hrsg.): The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition. Islamic Manuscripts and Books, Bd. 7. Leiden: Brill. S. 155-202

Abstract

This article offers a bibliographical aperçu of Zaydï kaläm-atudies in the period between the Banū Ṭāhir (middle of the 9th / 15th century) and the end of the first century of the Qāsimī dynasty (early 12th / 18th century) based on MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294. 2 This codex contains ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Naǧrī's as yet unedited K. Mirqät al-anzär which for almost three centuries constituted the backbone of Zaydī Kalām-studies. The body of the text is surrounded by extensive marginal notes (ḥawāšī) which mostly consist of quotations from a wide variety of Zaydī and Sunnī sources dating from the 4th / 10th century up to the copy date of the manuscript in 1108/1696. In contrast to the early reception of Bahšamī kalām among the Zaydīs in Yemen during the 6th/ 12th and 7th/ 13th centuries, which has been the focus of several studies over the past few decades, the subsequent periods remain largely unexplored. The sources of this period, which have yet to be investigated, provide a window into an important moment in the history of Muslim kalām. They are remarkable for their intellectual vitality, their engagement with and critical reception of multiple rival intellectual traditions and contemporaneous scholarly trends and the accordingly dense network of intertextualities they display. This article represents the first step toward filling this lacuna in the intellectual history of the Islamic world in general and of Yemen in particular.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Keywords: Zaydism; Kalām; Yemen; Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Naher und Mittlerer Osten > Forschungsstelle für jüdisch-arabische Kulturen
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 290 Andere Religionen
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28976-5
• Ort: Leiden
• Sprache: Englisch