@inbook{3573aa7740c346d0ab1c191521ad275c,
title = "A rare case of biblical {"}testimonies{"} to the prophet Muḥammad in Muʿtazilite literature: quotations from Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī{\textquoteright}s {"}Kitāb al-Dīn wa-l-Dawla{"} in Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Basrī{\textquoteright}s {"}Ġurar al-Adilla{"}, as preserved in a work by al-Ḥimmaṣī al-Rāzī",
abstract = "The text presented in the following pages is a chapter from al-Munqiḏ min al-taqlīd,¹ a compendium of Muʿtazilite theology composed in the year 581/1185 by the Imāmī Muʿtazilite Sadīd al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan al-Ḥimmaṣī al-Rāzī, who died after 600/1204.² The chapter that is edited and translated here deals with the biblical passages that were adduced by Muslims as proof of the veracity of the prophethood of Muḥammad.³ It is of great scholarly interest for a number of reasons. First of all, it contains extensive quotations from a work, now lost, by the well-known Muʿtazilite theologian Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī...",
author = "Camilla Adang",
note = "Appeared previously in {"}A Common Rationality; Mu'tazilism in Islam and Judaism{"} (2007) 297-330.",
year = "2019",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
isbn = "9781948488204",
series = "Resources in Arabic and Islamic studies",
pages = "203--227",
editor = "Camilla Adang and Sabine Schmidtke",
booktitle = "Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible",
}