Why Humans Refrain from Lying: A Critical Edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid al-lāzima ʿan ṣīghat dalīl wāḥid
This article offers a critical edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid al-lāzima ʿan ṣīghat dalīl wāḥid. In this text, al-Raṣṣāṣ establishes ten premisses to prove that humans will always say the truth if lying yields no greater benefit for them. We suggest that al-ʿAshr al-fawāʾid was written in reaction to a section of Mānkdīm Shashdīw’s Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa:…
The Fifth/Eleventh-Century Zaydi Jurist and Theologian al-Muwaffaq bi-llāh al-Jurjānī on the Consensus of the Family of the Prophet: An Editio Princeps of His Masʾala fī anna ijmāʿ ahl al-bayt ḥujja (MS Milan, Ambrosiana, ar. F 29/5, Fols 295v–309v)
The article presents an editio princeps of Masʾala fī anna ijmāʿ ahl al-bayt ḥujja by the fifth/eleventh-century Zaydī al-Muwaffaq bi-llāh al-Jurjānī, author of the K. al-Iḥāṭa fī ʿilm al-kalām and the K. al-Iʿtibār wa-salwat al-ʿārifīn, one of the earliest extant substantial discussions on the consensis of the family of the Prophet among the Zaydis. Yazar: Hassan Ansari – Ammar Jomah Falahieh Zadeh…
Do Accidents Need a Substrate? Critical Edition of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s Masʾala fī kayfiyyat wujūd al-aʿrāḍ
This article offers an editio princeps of al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ’s Masʾala fī kayfiyyat wujūd al-aʿrāḍ. In this text, al-Raṣṣāṣ argues in accordance with the Bahshamī theory that not all accidents need a substrate (maḥall). Although most accidents depend on atoms as their locus of inherence, there are three exceptions: the accident of “annihilation” (fanāʾ), whose existence in a substrate…
Sixth/Twelfth-Century Zaydī Theologians of Yemen Debating Avicennan Philosophy
This article offers critical editions of three texts by Zaydī theologians of sixth/twelfth-century Yemen refuting philosophical notions. The three texts are Qāḍī Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Salām al-Buhlūlī’s (d. 573/1177-78) Kitāb al-Risāla al-munāṣifa li-l-mutakallimīn wa-l-falāsifa (Masʾalat al-nafs) and two tracts by al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ (d. 584/1188), al-Masʾala al-kāshifa ʿan buṭlān shubhat al-falāsifa, a refutation of the philosophers’ doctrine…
Kâsım er-Ressî ve Yahya b. Hüseyin’in Görüşleri Çerçevesinde Nas ve Tayin Düşüncesinin Erken Dönem Zeydîlik’teki Yansımaları
İmamet düşüncesi, Şiî geleneğin dayandığı ana unsurlardan biridir. Bu düşüncenin en önemli tezlerinden biri de imamın nas ve tayin ile belirlenmesidir. Bu düşünce, Şiî gelenek içerisinde en çok İmâmiyye Şîası tarafından ön plana çıkarılmıştır. Zeyd b. Ali’ye (ö. 122/740) nispet edilen Zeydiyye de Şiî fırkalar arasında yer almaktadır. Her ne kadar Şiî bünye içerisinde kendine…