al-Hasan ibn Mūsā an-Naubachtī
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Mūsā an-Naubachtī ( Arabic الحسن بن موسى النوبختي, DMG al-Ḥasan b. Mūsā an-Naubaḫtī ; * in the 9th century; † between 912 and 922) was an imamite theologian and philosopher of Persian origin . He wrote in Arabic . He is best known for his book Firaq al-Shi'a on the sects of the Shi'a .
His book Firaq aš-šīʿa (The Sects of the Shi'a ) is the earliest work on the subject of Shiite sects that has survived in its entirety. It is also the oldest text book that provides an imamitic perspective on the differences between the various Islamic sects and on their origins within Shi'aism.
Works
- Firaq aš-šīʿa (The sects of the Shi'a) ( Bibliotheca Islamica 4; edited by Hellmut Ritter (Istanbul: Maṭbaʿat ad-daula [among others], 1931; edition of the Arabic text) Digitized
- Kitāb al-arāʾ wa-'d-diyānāt
- ar-Radd ʿalā 'l-ġulāt
literature
- Abbas Kadhim ( transl .): Shī'a Sects (Kitāb Firaq Al-Shī'a) . London: ICAS Press 2007
- Norman Calder and Jawid Ahmad Mojaddedi: Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature. Routledge Chapman & Hall. 2003 ( online excerpt )
Web links
- Literature by and about Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā an-Naubachtī in the catalog of the German National Library
- al-Nawbakhti, al-Hasan b. Musa. The Shi'ite Sects. Annotated translation from Arabic, Study and Notes by SM Prozorov. Moscow, 1973
Individual evidence
- ↑ See edition Bibliotheca Islamica 4; the work was translated into English by Abbas K. Kadhim : Shī'a Sects (Kitāb Firaq Al-Shī'a). London: ICAS Press, 2007. (For the Russian translation by Stanislav Michajlovič Prozorov , see web links.)
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| SURNAME | Naubachtī, al-Hasan ibn Mūsā an- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Naubachtī, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Mūsā an-; نوبختي, الحسن بن موسى ابو محمد ال (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian Imamite theologian and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 9th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 10th century |