Al-Mahdi Ahmad bin Yahya
Al-Mahdī Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā, or Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā Ibn al-Murtaḍā (أحمد بن يحيى المرتضى) (1363/1374 – 1436), was a
Zaidī state in Yemen
who briefly held the imamate in 1391–1392. He was an encyclopedist and a prolific writer on a range of subjects.
Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā was a 12th-generation descendant of the Zaidī imām ad-Da'i Yusuf (d. 1012). His full name was: al-Mahdī Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Murtaḍā ibn Aḥmad al-Jawad ibn al-Murtaḍā ibn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn al-Manṣūr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Alī ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Da'ī Yūsuf.
In 1391, when the elderly imām
His sister
Salafi scholar Muhammad Al-Shawkani wrote Al-Sayl al-jarrar, a denunciation of a text written by the Zaydi Imam Al-Mahdi Ahmad bin Yahya.[3]
Works
- Kitāb al-Baḥr al-zahhār: al-jāmiʻ li-madhāhab ʻulamāʼ al-amṣār; a theological-legal encyclopedia
- Kitāb al-milal wa al-niḥal: min ajzāʼ Kitāb al-baḥr al-zakhār: al-jāmiʻ li-madhāhab ʻulamāʼ al-amṣār[4]
- Ṭabaqāt al-Mu'tazilah[5][6]
- Bāb dhikr al-Muʻtazilah: min Kitāb al-Munyah wa-al-amal fī sharḥ kitāb al-Milal wa-al-niḥal[7]
- Al-Mutazilah: being an extract from the Kitābu-l milal wa-n-niḥal[8][9]
- Al-Kāshif li-dhawī al-ʻuqūl ʻan wujūh maʻānī al-kāfil bi-nayl al-suʼūl[10]
- Kitāb al-Munya wa-'l-amal fī sharḥ al-milāl wa-'n-niḥal[11]
- ʻUyūn al-Azhār fī fiqh al-aʼimmah al-aṭhār[12][13]
See also
- Imams of Yemen
- Rassids
- History of Yemen
References
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. V. Leiden 1986, p. 1241.
- ^ Carl Brockelmann, Geschicte der arabischen Litteratur, Vol I. Leiden 1943, pp. 238-40.
- ^ A Critical Edition of Al-Hasir li Fawa'id al-Muqaddima li Tahir, p.85-6.
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā; Javād Mashkūr, Muḥammad (1959), Kitāb al-milal wa al-niḥal : min ajzāʼ Kitāb al-baḥr al-zakhār: al-jāmiʻ li-madhāhab ʻulamāʼ al-amṣār, Arabic Collections Online (Organization) (in Arabic), Tabrīz: Columbia University Libraries
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1961), Diwald-Wilzer, Susanna; Zwettler, Michael (eds.), "Ṭabaqāt al-Mu'tazilah (Die Klassen der Mu'taziliten)", Bibliotheca Islamica, Nasharāt al-Islāmīyah, XXI, Bayrūt: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kāthūlīkīyah (in kommission bei Frantz Steiner Verlag)
- ^ Vajda, G. (1963), "Susanna Diwald-Wilzer. Kitāb Tabaqāt al-Mu'tazila, Die Klassen der Mu'taziliten, von Ahmad Ibn Yahyā al-Murtadā", Revue de l'histoire des religions, 163 (2): 262–3
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1975). Walker Arnold, Sir, Thomas (ed.). Bāb dhikr al-Muʻtazilah: min Kitāb al-Munyah wa-al-amal fī sharḥ kitāb al-Milal wa-al-niḥal (in Arabic). Bayrūt: Dār Ṣādir.
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1902). W Arnold, Thomas (ed.). Al-Mutazilah: being an extract from the Kitābu-l milal wa-n-niḥal (in Arabic and English). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Harrassowitz.
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1902). W Arnold, Thomas (ed.). Al-Mutazilah: being an extract from the Kitābu-l milal wa-n-niḥal (in Arabic and English). Leipzig: Halle, Saale Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt Leipzig u.a.
- Ṣanʻāʼ: Maktabat Badr lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ.
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā; Jawād Mashkūr, Muḥammad (1979). Kitāb al-Munya wa-'l-amal fī sharḥ al-milāl wa-'n-niḥal (in Arabic). Beirut.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā; Ṣādiq (al-), Mūsā (1975). ʻUyūn al-Azhār fī fiqh al-aʼimmah al-aṭhār (in Arabic). Bayrūt: Dār al-Kitāb al-Lubnānī.
- ^ Murtaḍā (Ibn al-), Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (1975). Uyun al-azhar. Bayrut: Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani.
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