EarlyIbadiTheology Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Islamic History and Civilization studies and texts EditorialBoard HinrichBiesterfeldt SebastianGünther HonoraryEditor WadadKadi volume 182 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ihc Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Early Ibadi Theology NewMaterialonRationalThoughtinIslamfromthe Penof al-Fazārī(2nd/8thCentury) Editedby Abdulrahmanal-Salimi leiden | boston Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Coverillustration:ThefirstpagesofK.al-Rudūd,fromamanuscriptinaprivatecollectionbelongingtothe endowmentsofal-BasinMosqueonDjerbaIsland,Tunisia. TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov lcrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2021022234 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. issn0929-2403 isbn978-90-04-39913-6(hardback) isbn978-90-04-45957-1(e-book) Copyright2021byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillNijhoff,BrillHotei,BrillSchöningh,BrillFink,Brill mentis,Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,BöhlauVerlagandV&RUnipress. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher.Requestsforre-useand/ortranslationsmustbe addressedtoKoninklijkeBrillnvviabrill.comorcopyright.com. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Tomygrandfather Shaybatal-ḤamdMuḥammadb.ʿAbdAllāhb.Ḥumaydal-Sālimī (1896–1985) ∵ Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 ArabicTexts 1 TheBookofRebuttals دودرلاباتك 25 2 TheEpistletoAbūQudāmaandAbūKhālid دلاخيبأوةمادقيبأىلإباتك 104 3 TheBookofLegalOpinions ايتفلاباتك 110 4 TheBookofMonotheismontheKnowledgeofGod هللاةفرعميفديحوتلاباتك 137 5 TheBookofDivineExpressions ةيهلإلاتارابعلاباتك 194 6 TheBookaboutMattersonWhichIgnoranceIsPermissibleandMatters onWhichIgnoranceIsImpermissible هلهجعسيالاموهلهجعسيامباتك 233 7 TheBookontheCategoriesandRegulations ماكحألاوءامسألاباتك 239 IndexofPersonalNamesمالعألاسرهف 259 IndexofTribesandSectsقرفلاولئابقلاسرهف 261 IndexofPlacesandCountriesنكامألاونادلبلاسرهف 263 IndexofTerminologyتاحلطصملاسرهف 264 IndexofBooksبتكـلاسرهف 267 IndexofPoemsراعشألاسرهف 268 IndexofQuranVersesتايآلاسرهف 269 IndexofPropheticTraditionثيداحألاسرهف 294 Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Acknowledgments I am much obliged to Shaykh Prof. Farahat al-Jaabiri (Tunisia), Mr. Sulay- manBabziz,andMr.MohammedHadjSaïdof Mzab,Algeria,andtoDr.Sassi benYahyaten of Belgium for kindly providing me with the digital version of the two new manuscripts. I also would like to extend my gratitude to Prof. SabineSchmidtke,Mrs.MarianZelazny(Princetonias),Prof.RidwanEl-Sayed (Lebanon),Dr.KhalidOmar(Egypt),Rev.ChrisHowitzandJamesBudd(United Kingdom), Prof. Ersilia Francesca (Naples L’Orientale), Prof. Angliki Ziaka (AristotleUniversity),Prof.AdamGaiserandAmandaPropst(fsu,USA),and Jana Newiger (University of Göttingen). I am very grateful to Prof. Sebastian Günther (University of Göttingen) and Prof. Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Ruhr- UniversitätBochum)fortheirenormousguidanceandadvice.Finally,Iwould liketoexpressmyspecialthanksandgratitudetoTeddiDols,PieterteVelde, andtheircolleaguesatBrill. IwishtoexpressmygratitudetoProf.AyatollahHosseinModarressiforhis companionshiponthisproject,andmysincerethankstohimforhisinsightful andmosthelpfulsuggestionsateverystageinbringingthisvolumetocomple- tion. Thebasicworkinpreparingtheeditionwascarriedoutduringaninvited visitattheInstituteforAdvancedStudyinPrincetonfromJanuary–April2018. Mythanksareduetotheinstituteforofferinganidealenvironmentforjoint scholarlyresearch.IalsowishtoexpressmythankstothePatriciaCronefel- lowship,whichprovidedthefundingformystayattheInstitute. Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1 Abdulrahman al-Salimi - 978-90-04-45957-1