Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti
{{Short description|Persian theologian and philosopher}}
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Nawbakhtī, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Mūsā; ({{lang|ar|نوبختي, أبو محمد الحسن بن موسى}})
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| death_date = {{Circa|10th century}}
| occupation = philosopher, theologian, author on Shia Islam
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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b Mūsā an-Nawbakhtī ({{lang|ar|الحسن بن موسى النوبختي}}; born late 9th century and died between 912 and 922) was a Persian and leading Shī'ī theologian and philosopher in the first half of the 10th century.{{sfn|Ṭūsī (al-)|1885|loc= sect. 208|p=98}}{{sfn|Mas‘ūdī (al-)|1869|loc=I |p=156}}{{sfn|Nadīm (al-)|1970 |page=1071}} The Nawbakhtī family boasted a number of scholars famous at the Abbāsid court of Hārūn al-Rashīd. Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa is best known for his book about the Shi'a sects titled Firaq al-Shi'a.
Life
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa al-Nawbakhti was the nephew of the theologian philosopher Abū Sahl ibn Nawbakht. Among his fellow translators of books of philosophy were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, and Thābit ibn Qurra. It was claimed al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa was both Muʿtazila and Shī’a for the Nawbakht family were known followers of ‘Alī.{{sfn|Nadīm (al-)|1970 |page=441}}
He transcribed a large number of books and wrote books on theology, philosophy and other topics.
His book Firaq aš-šī'a (The sects of Shi'a)See edition Bibliotheca Islamica 4; English translation by ʻAbbās K. Kāẓim: Shī'a Sects (Kitāb Firaq Al-Shī'a). London: ICAS Press, 2007. (For the Russian translation of Stanislav Michajlovič Prozorov, see web links.) is the earliest surviving complete work on the Shiite sects, and the oldest text from an imamitic perspective on the differences between the various Islamic sects and their origins within Shiism.
Works
- {{cite journal| title= Firaq aš-šī'a |editor-last=Ritter|editor-first= Hellmut |journal=Bibliotheca Islamica|issue=4|place= Istanbul |publisher= Maṭba'at ad-daula|year=1931|language= ar |edition=Digitalisat|url=http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/ssg/content/titleinfo/239876}}
- ar-Radd 'alā' l-ġulāt
=Titles listed in [[Ibn al-Nadim#Al-Fihrist|al-Fihrist]]=
- Kitāb al-arā' wa-'d-diyānāt ({{lang|ar|كتاب الاراء و الديانات ولم يتمّه}}); Doctrines and Religions (unfinished)
- Kitāb ar-radd alā' aṣḥāb at-tanāsukh ({{lang|ar|كتاب الردّ الى اصحاب التناسخ}}); Refutation of Upholders of Transmigration (At-tanāsukh)
- Kitāb at-tawḥīd wa ḥadīth al-Ilal ({{lang|ar|كتاب التوحيد وحدث العلل}}); Oneness and the Principal Cause
- Kitāb naqḍ ({{lang|ar|كتاب نقض}}) Refutation Book
- Kitāb Abū ‘Īsā fī ‘l-gharīb al-mashraqī ({{lang|ar|كتاب ابى عيسى في الغريب المشرقى}}); Refutation of the Book of Abū ‘Īsā about the Unusual Eastern {{refn|group=n|Al-Gharīb al-Mashraqī fī al-Nawḥ bu Abū ‘Īsā al-Warrāq}}
- Kitāb Ikhtiṣārī Ikhtiṣār al-kūn wa’l-fasād li-Arisṭālīs ({{lang|ar|كتاب اختصارِ اختصار الكون والفساد لارسطاليس}}); Abridgement of Aristotle’s “De Generatione et Corruptione”
- Kitāb al-Ihtijāj li ‘Umar ibn ‘Abbād wa nuṣrat madhabuhu ({{lang|ar|كتاب الاحتجاج لعمر بن عباد ونصرة مذهبه}}); Proof by Umar ibn ‘Abbād and a Defense of his Doctrines{{refn|group=n|By “proof” al-Nadīm may refer to the title or to proving something to Umar ibn ‘Abbād.{{sfn|Nadīm (al-)|1970|p=441, n.37}}}}
- Kitāb al-Āmāmat ({{lang|ar|كتاب الامامة}}); ‘The Imamate’ (unfinished)
Notes
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References
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=Bibliography=
- 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 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=JdjtUTYSL1UC&pg=PA163 Online Excerpt])
- {{cite book|last=Nadīm (al-)|first=Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq | title=The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture |editor-last=Dodge |editor-first=Bayard| translator =Bayard Dodge |place=New York & London |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1970}}
- {{cite journal|last=Ṭūsī (al-) |first=Abū Ja’far Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan | title= Fihrist al-Ṭūsī (Tusy's list of Shy'ah Books and 'Alam al-Hoda's Notes on Shy'ah Biography)|editor-last=Sprenger |editor-first=Aloys |journal=Bibliotheca Indica| issue=71, 91, 107|place=Calcutta |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal, Baptist Mission Press |year=1885}}
- {{cite book|last=Mas‘ūdī (al-) |first=Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn| title=Kitāb Murūj al-Dhahab wa-Ma'ādin al-Jawhar (Les Prairies d'or )|translator1-last=Meynard (de) | translator1-first= C. Barbier |translator2-last= Courteille (de)| translator2-first=Pavet |place=Paris |publisher=Imprimerie impériale |orig-year=1861| year=1869|language=ar, fr }}
External links
- {{DNB Portal | 102472971}}
- [http://orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_publications&Itemid=75&pub=47 al-Nawbakhti, al-Hasan b. Musa. The Shi'ite Sects.]. Annotated translation from Arabic, Study and Notes by S.M. Prozorov. Moscow, 1973.
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