Hassan Ansari is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with a PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) of the Sorbonne, Paris. His publications include Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfir (edited with. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, and Sabine Schmidtke; (2015), L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes (2017), and a critical edition of Ibn al-Malahimi's Tuhfat al-mutakallimin fi l-radd 'ala l-falasifa (2008, with Wilferd Madelung).Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

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• Table of ContentsMuʿtazilism
 1. Muʿtazilism after ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār: Abū Rašīd al-Nīsābūrī’s K. Masāʾil al-Ḫilāf fī l-Uṣūl2. Muʿtazilism in Rayy and Astarābād: Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. Šarwīn3. The Muʿtazilite and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s K. al-Muʿtamadfī Usūl al-Fiqh A Bibliographical Note4. Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century (with Wilferd Madelung)Zaydism in Iran5. The Zaydī Reception of Ibn Ḫallād’s K. al-Uṣūl:The Taʿlīq of Abū Ṭāhir b. ʿAlī al-Ṣa ār6. Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abū l-Faḍl b. Šahrdawīr al-Daylamī al-Ǧīlānī and His Commentary on the QurʾānZaydism in Yemen7. The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen, Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries8. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemenī Zaydīs (I): The Formation of Imam al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim9. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī10. Between Aleppo and Ṣaʿda: The Zaydī Reception of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī11. Zaydī Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries (with Jan Thiele)12. Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemen: ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd
al-ʿAnsī and His K. al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-DīnTwelver Šīʿism13. The Twelver Šīʿī Reception of Muʿtazilism14. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception15. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī’s Muqaddama fī l-Madḫal ilā ʿIlm al-Kalām: A Critical Edition Mysticism16. Abū Saʿd al-Ḫargūšī and His K. al-Lawāmiʿ A Ṣūfī Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur Bibliographical Traditions17. Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies, with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525BibliographyIndexesPersonal NamesBook TitlesPlace Names and InstitutionsManuscripts

Hassan Ansari is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with a PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) of the Sorbonne, Paris. His publications include Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfir (edited with. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, and Sabine Schmidtke; (2015), L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes (2017), and a critical edition of Ibn al-Malahimi's Tuhfat al-mutakallimin fi l-radd 'ala l-falasifa (2008, with Wilferd Madelung).Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

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• Table of ContentsMuʿtazilism
 1. Muʿtazilism after ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār: Abū Rašīd al-Nīsābūrī’s K. Masāʾil al-Ḫilāf fī l-Uṣūl2. Muʿtazilism in Rayy and Astarābād: Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. Šarwīn3. The Muʿtazilite and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s K. al-Muʿtamadfī Usūl al-Fiqh A Bibliographical Note4. Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century (with Wilferd Madelung)Zaydism in Iran5. The Zaydī Reception of Ibn Ḫallād’s K. al-Uṣūl:The Taʿlīq of Abū Ṭāhir b. ʿAlī al-Ṣa ār6. Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abū l-Faḍl b. Šahrdawīr al-Daylamī al-Ǧīlānī and His Commentary on the QurʾānZaydism in Yemen7. The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen, Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries8. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemenī Zaydīs (I): The Formation of Imam al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim9. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī10. Between Aleppo and Ṣaʿda: The Zaydī Reception of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī11. Zaydī Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries (with Jan Thiele)12. Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemen: ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd
al-ʿAnsī and His K. al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-DīnTwelver Šīʿism13. The Twelver Šīʿī Reception of Muʿtazilism14. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception15. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī’s Muqaddama fī l-Madḫal ilā ʿIlm al-Kalām: A Critical Edition Mysticism16. Abū Saʿd al-Ḫargūšī and His K. al-Lawāmiʿ A Ṣūfī Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur Bibliographical Traditions17. Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies, with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525BibliographyIndexesPersonal NamesBook TitlesPlace Names and InstitutionsManuscripts

Hassan Ansari is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with a PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) of the Sorbonne, Paris. His publications include Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfir (edited with. Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, and Sabine Schmidtke; (2015), L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes (2017), and a critical edition of Ibn al-Malahimi's Tuhfat al-mutakallimin fi l-radd 'ala l-falasifa (2008, with Wilferd Madelung).Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

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• Table of ContentsMuʿtazilism
 1. Muʿtazilism after ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār: Abū Rašīd al-Nīsābūrī’s K. Masāʾil al-Ḫilāf fī l-Uṣūl2. Muʿtazilism in Rayy and Astarābād: Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. Šarwīn3. The Muʿtazilite and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s K. al-Muʿtamadfī Usūl al-Fiqh A Bibliographical Note4. Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Rebuttal of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī in a Yemeni Zaydī Manuscript of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century (with Wilferd Madelung)Zaydism in Iran5. The Zaydī Reception of Ibn Ḫallād’s K. al-Uṣūl:The Taʿlīq of Abū Ṭāhir b. ʿAlī al-Ṣa ār6. Iranian Zaydism during the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Abū l-Faḍl b. Šahrdawīr al-Daylamī al-Ǧīlānī and His Commentary on the QurʾānZaydism in Yemen7. The Cultural Transfer of Zaydī and Non-Zaydī Religious Literature from Northern Iran to Yemen, Sixth/Twelfth through Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries8. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemenī Zaydīs (I): The Formation of Imam al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim9. The Literary-Religious Tradition among Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemeni Zaydīs (II): The Case of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī10. Between Aleppo and Ṣaʿda: The Zaydī Reception of the Imāmite Scholar Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī11. Zaydī Theology in Yemen, Third/Ninth through Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries (with Jan Thiele)12. Zaydī Theology in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Yemen: ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd
al-ʿAnsī and His K. al-Maḥaǧǧa al-Bayḍāʾ fī Uṣūl al-DīnTwelver Šīʿism13. The Twelver Šīʿī Reception of Muʿtazilism14. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception15. Al-Šayḫ al-Ṭūsī’s Muqaddama fī l-Madḫal ilā ʿIlm al-Kalām: A Critical Edition Mysticism16. Abū Saʿd al-Ḫargūšī and His K. al-Lawāmiʿ A Ṣūfī Guide Book for Preachers from Fourth/Tenth-Century Nishapur Bibliographical Traditions17. Bibliographical Practices in Islamic Societies, with an Analysis of MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 13525BibliographyIndexesPersonal NamesBook TitlesPlace Names and InstitutionsManuscripts