Ibn Qutaybah

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Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī al-Marwazī
Titleibn Qutaybah
Personal
Born828CE, 213 AH
Scholar of Islam

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī al-Marwazī better known simply as Ibn Qutaybah (

hadith, theology, philosophy, law and jurisprudence, grammar, philology, history, astronomy, agriculture and botany
.

Biography

His full name is Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Muslim ibn Qutaybah ad-Dīnawarī. He was born in

philologists that succeeded the schools of Kufa and Basra.[17] He was known as a vocal opponent of "gentile" or shu'ubi Islam, i.e. openness to non-Islamic wisdom and values.[18]

Legacy

He was viewed by

Sunni Muslims as a hadith Master, foremost philologist, linguist, and man of letters. In addition to his literary criticism and anthologies, he was also known for his work in the problems of Tafsir or Qur'anic interpretation.[9] He also authored works on astronomy and legal theory.[16][19] His book Uyun al-Akhbar, along with the romantic literature of Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri and Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur, were considered by lexicographer Ibn Duraid to be the three most important works for those who wished to speak and write eloquently.[20][21]

There can be no government without an army,
No army without money,
No money without prosperity,
And no prosperity without justice and good administration.

— Ibn Qutaybah on good government.[22]


His work Taʾwīl mukhtalif al-ḥadīth was an influential early

Atharite treatise that rebuked rationalists on the nature of Tradition. In his treatise, Ibn Qutayba censures the mutakallimūn (scholastic theologians) for holding contradictory and differing views on the principles of religion.[23]

Ibn Muṭarrif al-Ṭarafī (d. 1062 CE) gathered passages from Ibn Qutayba's Kitāb mushkil al-Qurʾān and Kitāb ghafīb al-Qurʾān and arranged them to be in the same order as the relevant Qurʾān chapters in a work called Kitāb al-Qurṭayn.[24]: 135 

Works

He wrote more than 60 books,[25] including :

  • Gharīb al-Qur'an, (var., Mushkil al-Qur'an), lexical complexities in the Qur'an.
  • Ta’wīl Mukhtalif al-Hadīth, (
    Mu'tazilite critics.[26]
  • Kitāb Adab al-Kātib (“Ibn Kutaiba’s Adab al-Kātib,” ed. Max Grünert, Leiden, 1900)
  • Kitāb al-Anwā’. (Hyderabad, 1956)[27]
  • Kitāb al-Ma‘ānī al-Kabīr fī Abyāt al-Ma‘ānī. 2 vols. (Hyderabad, 1949)
  • Kitāb al-Ma’ārif, short universal history, from Creation to the
    hadīth („Ibn Coteiba’s Handbuch de Geschichte“, ed., Ferdinand Wüstenfeld
    , Gottingen, 1850); (ed., Tharwat ‘Ukāshah, Cairo, 1960).
  • Kitāb al-Shi‘r wa-al-Shu‘arā’ (“Liber Poësie et Poëtarum,” ed., M. J de Goeje, Leiden, 1904)
  • Kitab ‘Uyūn al-Akhbār. 4 vols. (Cairo, 1925-30); biographic history of eminent figures.[28][29]
  • Kitāb al-Amwāl
  • Kitāb al-‘Arab wa ‘Ulūmuhā; history of Arab scholars
  • Kitāb al-Ashriba; alcoholic beverages.
  • Kitāb Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa, or A‘lām al-Nubuwwa on the Proofs of the Prophets.
  • Kitāb Fad.l al-‘Arab ‘alā al-‘Ajam, in praise of the Arabs over the Persians.
  • Kitāb I‘rāb al-Qur’ān, a philological commentary on the Qur'ān.
  • Kitāb al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafz wa al-Radd ‘alā al-Jahmiyya wal-Mushabbiha, a refutation of the Allegorizers and Anthropomorphists. (Egypt,several editions)
  • Kitāb al-Ishtiqāq
  • Kitāb Is.lāh. Ghalat, corrections of Gharīb al-H.adīth by al-Qāsim ibn Salām.
  • Kitāb Jāmi‘ al-Fiqh, jurisprudence, dispraised as unreliable by al-T.abarī and Ibn Surayj, as was Ibn Qutayba’s al-Amwāl.
  • Kitāb Jāmi‘ al-Nah.w al-Kabīr and Jāmi‘ al-Nah.w al-S.aghīr
  • Kitāb al-Jarāthīm, linguistics.
  • Kitāb al-Jawābāt al-H.ād.ira.
  • Kitāb al-Ma‘ānī al-Kabīr
  • Kitāb al-Masā’il wal-Ajwiba.
  • Kitāb al-Maysar wal-Qidāh, ('Dice and Lots').
  • Kitāb al-Na‘m wal-Bahā’im, cattle and livestock.
  • Kitāb al-Nabāt, botany.
  • Kitāb al-Qirā’āt, ('The Canonical Readings').
  • Kitāb al-Radd ‘alā al-Qā’il bi Khalq al-Qur’ān, ('Against the creationist claims about the Qur’an').
  • Kitāb al-Radd ‘alā al-Shu‘aybiyya, ('Refutation of a sub-sect of the ‘Ajārida ‘At.awiyya, itself a sub-sect of the Khawārij).
  • Kitāb al-Rah.l wal-Manzil.
  • Kitāb Ta‘bīr al-Ru’yā, ('Interpretation of Dreams').
  • Kitāb Talqīn al-Muta‘allim min al-Nah.w on grammar.
  • Kitāb ‘Uyūn al-Shi‘r, on poetry.

See also

  • List of Islamic scholars
  • List of Iranian scientists and scholars
  • Al-Zahiriyah Library

Citations

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  7. ^ Camilla Adang, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm, BRILL (1996), p. 58
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  14. ^ Sean Anthony, The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shīʿism, BRILL (2011), p. 162
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  17. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ibn Qutaiba". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 222.
  18. ^ Hoyland, Robert G. (2014). In God's Path The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 217–8. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  19. ^ Introduction to The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology , pg. 22. Eds. Shahid Rahman, Tony Street and Hassan Tahiri. Volume 11 of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science Series The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and Their Interactions.
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  24. ^ Roberto Tottoli, 'The Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ of Ibn Muṭarrif al-Ṭarafī (d. 454/1062): Stories of the Prophets from al-Andalus', Al-Qantara, 19.1 (1998), 131–60.
  25. Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch
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  27. ^ Online link.
  28. ^ See: Luisa Arvide, Relatos, University of Almeria Press, Almeria 2004 (in Arabic and Spanish).
  29. ^ Arvide Cambra, L.M. (2014), "Kitab 'Uyun al-Akhbar of Ibn Qutayba (828-889)", Advances in Education Research (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Social Science, ICASS 2014), vol. 51, pp. 650-653.

References

  • Qutaybah (Ibn), Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (1900). Max Grünert (ed.). Kitāb Adab al-Kātib (Ibn Kutaiba's Adab al-Kātib). Leiden: Brill.
  • Qutaybah (Ibn), Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (1956). Kitāb al-Anwā'. Hyderabad: Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif al-‘Uthmānīyah.
  • Qutaybah (Ibn), Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (1949). Kitāb al-Ma'ānī al-Kabīr fī Abyāt al-Ma'ānī (in Arabic). Vol. 2. Hyderabad: Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif al-‘Uthmānīyah.
  • Qutaybah (Ibn), Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (1850). Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand (ed.). Kitāb al-Ma'ārif (Ibn Coteiba's Handbuch de Geschichte) (in Arabic). Göttingen: Vandenhoek und Ruprecht.
  • Qutaybah (Ibn), Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (1960). ‘Ukāshah, Tharwat (ed.). Kitāb al-Ma'ārif (in Arabic). Cairo: Dār al-Kutub.
  • Ibn Qotaiba (Ibn Qutaybah), ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim (1904).
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  • Qutaybah (Ibn), Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd Allāh (1930) [1925]. Kitab 'Uyūn al-Akhbār (in Arabic). Vol. 4. Cairo: Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah.

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