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ABDULRAHMAN AL-SALIMI and WILFERD MADELUNG : Early Ibadi Theology: Six Kalam Texts by 'Abd Allah b. Yazid al-Fazari . (Islamic History and Civilization.) cvi, 241 pp. Leiden : Brill , 2014. [euro]99. ISBN 978 90 04 27025 1 .
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Many scholars of Islamic studies acknowledge the importance of Ibadi sources to the early history of Islam: as a sectarian group that holds distinctive perspectives on Islam vis-a-vis their Sunni and Shi'ite brethren, Ibadi texts often preserve unique views on early Islamic history, theology and law. In the work under review, Madelung and Al-Salimi provide a critical Arabic edition of six previously unpublished early Ibadi theological works by Abu Muhammad (Abdullah b. Yazid al-Fazari (d. after 179/795), an early Ibadi thinker of considerable importance. In fact, Early Ibadi Theology represents a capstone of sorts for Professor Madelung, whose interest in al-Fazari dates back to his critical edition of the Zaydi Imam Ahmad al-Nasir li-Din Allah's (d. 322/934) refutation in the Kitab al-Najat of a treatise on predestination by al-Fazari (Streitschrift des Zaiditenimams: Wider die Ibaditische Prädestinationslehre, Wiesbaden, 1985). Similarly, the book reflects Al-Salimi's ongoing work in publishing previously unpublished Ibadi manuscripts, as well as in Islamic theology. Along with al-Fazari's edited texts - the Kitab al-Qadar (Book of Predetermination); Kitab fi,l-Radd (ala Ibn (Umayr (Refutation of Ibn (Umayr); Kitab al-Radd (ala al-Mujassima (Refutation of the Corporalists); Kitab al-Futya (Book of Legal Opinion); Kitab al-Tawhid fi Ma(rifat...