We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī's draft letter to his teacher: The culture of scholarly correspondence and the Islamic republic of letters in the sixteenth century.
- Authors
Stewart, Devin J.
- Abstract
This study focuses on a draft letter by Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-ʿĀmilī (d. 984/1576) for his teacher Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (d. 965/1558); both were prominent Twelver Shiite jurists from the region of Jabal ʿĀmil in what is now Lebanon. Yūsuf Ṭabājah, who first published the text, argued that Ḥusayn wrote the letter while he was in Iraq c. 957/1550 and that it describes Zayn al-Dīn's legal work al-Rawḍah al-bahiyyah. It is argued here that the book in question is more likely Zayn al-Dīn's work Tamhīd al-qawāʿid, on legal and grammatical maxims, and that the letter dates to c. 958/1551. The text provides insight into the relationship between Ḥusayn and Zayn al-Dīn and the culture of scholarly correspondence.
- Subjects
SHIITES; ISLAMIC education; AL-Nabulusi, 'Abd al-Ghani; SUFIS; MUSLIM scholars; CORRESPONDENCE analysis (Communications); HISTORY of Lebanon; HISTORY of Iraq
- Publication
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 2020, Vol 83, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0041-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0041977X20002384