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SHAHRASTANI [Abu'l-Fath Mahommed ibn `Abdalkarim ush-Shahrastani] (1076 or 1086—1153)

SHAHRASTANI [See also:
ABU
Abu'l-Fath Mahommed See also:
IBN
ibn `Abdalkarim ush-Shahrastani] (1076 or 1086—1153) Arabian theologian and jurist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Shahrastan in See also:

KHORASAN, or KHORASSAN (i.e. " land of the sun ")

Khorasan and studied at Jurjaniyah and See also:

Nishapur, devoting his See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention chiefly to Ash'arite See also:

THEOLOGY

theology. He made the See also:

PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

pilgrimage in 1116, on his way back stayed at See also:

BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad for three years, then returned to his native See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place. His See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

WORK

work is the Kitab ul Mild wan-Niltal, an See also:

account of religious sects and philosophical See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, publishedby W. See also:

CURETON, WILLIAM (1808-1864)

Cureton (2 vols., See also:

LONDON

London, 1846) and translated into See also:

German by T. Haarbriicker (2 vols., See also:

Halle, 1850-1851). After a See also:

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface of five chapters dealing with the divisions of the human See also:

RACE

race, an enumeration of the sects of See also:

ISLAM

Islam, the objections of Satan against See also:

God and against See also:

MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet and the principles on which the sects may be classified, he deals with (1) the sects of Islam in detail, (2) the possessors of a written See also:

REVELATION, BOOK OF

revelation (See also:

Jews and Christians) or something resembling it (the Magi), (3) the men who follow their own See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason, i.e. the philosophers of See also:

GREECE

Greece and their followers among the Moslems; the pre-Islamic See also:

ARABS

Arabs, the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and the See also:

HEATHEN

heathen. Among Shahrastani's other See also:

WORKS

works still in See also:

MANUSCRIPT

manuscript only are a See also:

HISTORY

history of philosophers, a dogmatic See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text-See also:

BOOK

book and a treatment of seven metaphysical questions. A brief account of him is given on the authority of his See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, the historian Sam`See also:

ANI (anc. Abnicum)

ani, in Ibn Khallikan, vol. ii., pp. 675 if. (G. W.

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