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In Ibadi Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ibadi religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Ibadis constitutes the moderate wing of the Kharijite opposition movement to the Umayyad and 'Abbasid caliphates. The texts edited are mostly polemical letters to opponents or exhortatory to followers by 'Abd Allah b. Ibad , Abu l-'Ubayda Muslim b. Abi Karima and other Ibadi leaders in Basra, Oman and Hadramawt. An epistle detailing the offences of the caliph 'Uthman is by the early Kufan historiographer al-Haytham b. 'Adi. By their early date and independence of the mainstream historical tradition these txts offer the modern historian of Islam an invaluable complement to the well-known literary sources.

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The scientific edition of these fourteen early Ibadi texts, all from the 2nd/8th century, together in one book, constitutes a welcome addition to the growing body of newly edited and published old Ibadi texts. - Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N Degrees 1-2 (2019)

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Wilferd Madelung, D. Phil. 1957, University of Hamburg, is emeritus Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford University. He has written extensively on early Islamic history, religious movements and schools of thought, and is the author of The Succession to Muhammad (Cambridge, 1997), and co-editor of An Ismaili Heresiography (Leiden: Brill, 1998), Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication (Leiden: Brill, 2006), Basran Mu'tazilite Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2011), Early Ibad i Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014), Al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad Promoter of Rational Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2016) and the Encyclopaedia Islamica (Leiden: Brill). Abdulrahman al-Salimi (Ph.D. Durham 2001) is the editor in chief of the Omani journal al-Tafahom. He has published on Omani studies and early Islamic theology and is the author of Ibadism in East Mesopotamia. Early Islamic Iran, Central Asia and India (Beirut: German Oriental Institute, 2016) and co-editor of Early Ibad i Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

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