ابن قتيبة, ابو محمد عبد الله بن مسلم الدينوري
Alessandro Gori
Names
ابن قتيبة, ابو محمد عبد الله بن مسلم الدينوري Ibn Qutayba, Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh b. Muslim al-Dīnawarī
Period of Activity
3rd / 9th century (d. 885)One of the great Sunnī polygraphs of the 3rd/9th century, theologian and writer of adab. Although his theodicy is clearly “Ḥanbalī”, his attitude on qadar has nevertheless some strange nuances; although his attitude concerning the Qurʾān is orthodox, he is much less categorical on the problem of lafẓ [q.v.], which he states does not prevent membership of the Sunnī community; although his attitude concerning the Companions is that which remained in later times the touchstone of the Sunna, he nevertheless retained a deep and reverent respect for the family and descendants of the Prophet, so far as they were politically neutral. His methodology certainly seems steadfastly to despise the rational or intellectual criteria held for example among the Šāfiʿīs and the Ḥanafīs. The Qurʾān and the Sunna remain for him the two fundamental bases of doctrine; the third is iǧmāʿ, of which his conception is perhaps nearer to that of Mālik than of Ibn Ḥanbal. The Ḥanafī raʾy and the Šāfiʿī qiyās are fiercely demolished in the Muḫtalif , as are all their equivalents ( naẓar , ʿaql , istiḥsān , etc.).
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- ابن قتيبة, ابو محمد عبد الله بن مسلم الدينوري ar
Dates
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Brockelmann, Carl 1898. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Band 1 (Weimar: Felber, 1898). page 120-123
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Brockelmann, Carl 1937. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Erster Supplementband (Leiden: Brill, 1937). page 184-7
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D. B. Macdonald n.d. Encyclopaedia of Islam, II Edition, Online, ed. P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs (Leiden: Brill, ). page <http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/ibn-kutayba-COM_0333>
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