al-Shahrastani

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Ash-Shahrastani ( Arabic الشهرستاني, DMG aš-Šahrastānī ; * 1076 in Shahrastan ; † 1153 ) was an Islamic religious historian of the Middle Ages. He comes from Schahrastan, a place in Khorasan , Iran . One of the most famous works of Shahrastani is the Kitab al-Milal wa al-Nihal .

Kitab al-Milal wa-n-Nihal

In the work Kitāb al-Milal wa-n-Nihal (Arabicكتاب الملل و النحل, 'Book of Groups and Faiths'; engl. The Book of Sects and Creeds ) is a study of the then known groups in Islam up to the beginning of the 12th century. The work also contains numerous individual biographies. It lists both Sunnis and Shiite dignitaries .

The work was completely translated from Arabic into German by Theodor Haarbrücker and provided with explanatory notes.

A French translation of this work by D. Gimaret, G. Monnot, J. Jolivet (1986) was sponsored by UNESCO and appeared in its second edition in 1993.

literature

  • Paul-Richard Berger:  Sharastani. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1571-1575.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Theodor Haarbrücker: Abu-'l-Fath 'Muhammad asch-Schahrastani's religious parties and schools of philosophy . For the first time fully translated from Arabic and annotated with explanatory notes by Dr. Theodor Haarbrücker. CA Schwetschke and Son, Halle 1850–1851.
    • First part: The Muhammadan, Jewish, Christian and dualistic religious parties . Digitized
    • Second part: the Sabeans, the philosophers, the ancient Arabs and the Indians . Digitized
personal data
SURNAME al-Shahrastani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhammad al-Shahrastani; al-Shahrastani; Shahrastani; Abu al-Fath Muhammad al-Shahrastani; al-Shahrastani; Shahrastani; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm aš-Šahrastānī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic religious historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1076
PLACE OF BIRTH Shahrastan
DATE OF DEATH 1153