Jewish-Muslim intellectual history entangled : textual materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg. / edited by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke and Jan Thiele
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār al-Hamaḏānī commenting on Abū Hāšim al-Ǧubbāʼī -- 2 ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār al-Hamaḏānī commenting on al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād: Addenda -- 3 Nukat al-Muġnī (vols 1-3), an anonymous abbreviated recension of ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār al-Hamaḏānī's K. al-Muġnī -- 4 ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-Labbād on Natural Philosophy -- 5 Al-Uṣūl al-muhaḏḏabiyya, by Sahl b. Faḍl al-Tustarī -- 6 K. Laḏḏāt al-ḏāt fī iṯbāt waḥdat al-ṣifāt, by al-Faḍl b. Mufarraǧ -- 7 Radd Ifḥām al-Yahūd, by an anonymous Rabbanite author -- REFERENCES -- ILLUSTRATIONS
Summary
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War
