Sabine Schmidtke
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Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-5065.
For a full curriculum vitae and list of publication, see here.
For my Collection of Manuscript Surrogates (the list is continuously being expanded), see here.
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- Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī and his transmission of biblical materials from Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī: The evidence from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Mafātīḥ al-ghayb(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Schmidtke, SabineThe authenticity of the Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam, Abū al-asan ʿAlī b. Sahl Rabban al-abarī (d. ca. 251/865), has been discussed since the publication of the text by A. Mingana in 1922 Mingana, A. (1922) The Book of Religion and Empire. A Semi-Official Defence and Exposition of Islam Written by Order at the Court and with the Assistance of the Caliph Mutawakkil (A.D. 847–861) by ʿAlī abarī. Translated with a critical apparatus from an apparently unique MS. in the John Rylands Library (Manchester/New York). [Google Scholar]/23. A comparison between the chapter of the Twelver Shīʿī Sadīd al-Dīn Mamūd b. ʿAlī al-immaī al-Rāzī's (d. after 600/1204) Munqidh min al-taqlīd discussing the biblical predictions of the Prophet Muammad and the corresponding sections of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's (d. 606/1209) Mafāti al-ghayb reveals a substantial degree of verbal and structural agreement. It becomes evident that Fakhr al-Dīn, like al-immaī, are using material from Ibn Rabban's Al-dīn wa-al-dawla, although they were both relying on an intermediate source, Abū al-usayn al-Barī's (d. 436/1045) Kitāb ghurar al-adilla.
341 209 - Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī on the Torah and its Abrogation(Université Saint Joseph, 2008)Schmidtke, Sabine
330 239 - Biblical predictions of the Prophet Muḥammad among the Zaydīs of Yemen (6th/12th and 7th/13th centuries)(Pontifico Istituto Oreintale, 2013)Schmidtke, Sabine
435 288 - The Doctrine of the Transmigration of Soul according to Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (killed 587/1191) and his Followers.(P. Geuthner, 1999)Schmidtke, SabineThis paper investigates the attitudes of the Illuminationists towards metempsychosis. It considers Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī's (executed 587/1197) treatment of issue in his Ḥikmat al-ishrāq, Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Shahrazūrī's (d. after 688/1288) notion of metempsychosis in his Shajara al-ilāhiyya and Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī's (d. after 906/1501) concept of transmigration in his Kitāb al-Mujlī. Whereas the aforementioned thinkers adhered to the temporal origin of the soul, other Illuminationists, namely the Jewish philosopher Sa'd al-Dīn Manṣūr b. Kammūna (d. 1284) and the Imanite Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 710/1311 or 716/1316) believed in the pre-eternity of the soul. Their notion of metempsychosis therefore necessarily differs from the concept of Suhrawardī, Shahrazūrī and Ibn Abī Jumhūr.
831 487 - Early Ašʿarite Theology: Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 403/1013) and his Hidāyat al-mustaršidīn(Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2011)Schmidtke, SabineIn a recently published article, Daniel Gimaret has offered a first study on the Kitāb Hidāyat al-mustaršidīn, Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī’s (d. 403/1013) most comprehensive and, as it would seem, last work in the field of kalām. Gimaret consulted and described two manuscripts containing different parts of the work, viz. ms. Qarawiyyīn 692 (Fez) and ms. al-Azhar III 337, ʿilm al-kalām [21] 342 (Cairo). The purpose of the present article is to introduce two additional partial manuscripts of al-Bāqillānī’s work, ms. St. Petersburg, The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, # C 329 and ms. Tashkent, al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, # 3296, constituting Volumes Five and Eleven of the work.
414 499 - 'Er versinkt aber in einem Meer von Handschriften': Friedrich Kern (1874-1921) and His Studies on the Dogmatic History of Ḥanafism and Māturīdism(Vittorio Klostermann, )Schmidtke, SabineOne of the most avid readers of Arabic manuscripts at the Berlin State Library between June 1898 and April 1921 was Friedrich Kern (1874–1921). Kern never held an academic position, his published scholarly output is slim, and he is nowadays primarily remembered for his edition of a fragment of Muḥammad b. Ǧarīr al-Ṭabarī’s (224–5/839–310/923) Iḫtilāf al-fuqahāʾ which was owned at the time by the Khedival Library in Cairo (published in 1902). However, the sheer mass of some 800 manuscripts which he consulted at the Berlin State Library over the course of two decades, in addition to countless manuscripts held by other libraries throughout Europe and the United States, as well as in the libraries of Cairo, Istanbul, and Algiers, suggests that Kern was an exceptional and deeply knowledgeable scholar, something which is corroborated by Eugen Mittwoch’s (1876–1942) obituary for him, published in 1924. The manuscripts Kern consulted, as well as his publications, reflect the wide spectrum of his scholarly interests, ranging from Islamic law and dogma, history and biography, to dialectology, popular culture, Egyptian shadow theatre, poetry and adab. ...
770 779 - For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century(2020)Schmidtke, SabineThe prominent Twelver Shiʿi scholar and poet, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn "al-Sharīf al-Raḍī" (d. 406 AH/1015 CE), author of a Qurʾān commentary in ten volumes, Ḥaqāʾiq al-taʾwīl fī mutashābih al-tanzīl, which has only partly been preserved, and compiler of the renowned anthology of testimonials, opinions, and sayings attributed to Imām ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 AH/661 CE), Nahj al-balāgha, also composed a comprehensive, and largely unprecedented book on the metaphors in the Qurʾān, Talkhīṣ al-bayān ʿan majāzāt al-Qurʾān. A remarkable manuscript containing volume two of the work is currently offfered for sale by the UK auctioneer Dreweatts ...
539 436 1140 483 - Islamic Rational Theology in the Collections of Leiden University Library. The ‘Supplements’ of the Zaydī Imām al-Nāṭiq bi-l-ḥaqq (d. 1033) to the theological Summa of Abū ʿAlī Ibn Khallād (fl. second half of the 10th century)(Bulletin van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden en het Scaliger Instituut, 2007)
;Schmidtke, SabineAdang, Camilla209 81 - Moshe Perlmann (1905-2001): A Scholarly Biography(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009)Schmidtke, Sabine
250 173 - Moshe Perlmann (1905-2001): List of Writings and Publications(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009)Schmidtke, Sabine
186 1552 - Muslim Polemics against Judaism and Christianity in 18th Century Iran. The Literary Sources of Āqā Muḥammad ʿAlī Bihbahānī’s (1144/1732-1216/1801) Rādd-i shubahāt al-kuffār(Peters, Studia Iranica, 2006)
;Schmidtke, SabinePourjavady, RezaAmong the refutations, that were written against Christian missionaries at the turn of the 18th/19th century following the order of Fatḥ 'Alī Shāh (reigned 1212/1797-1250/1834), was the extensive Rādd-i shubuhāt al-kuffār by ēqā Muḥammad 'Alī Bihbahānī Kirmēnshēhē (d. 1216/1801). The present article investigates the literary sources of this work among them particularly Ibn Kammūna's (d. 683/1284) Tanqīḥ al-abḥēth li-l-milal al-thalāth and Samaw'al al-Maghrībī's (d. 570/1175) Ifḥām al-yahūd. Other prominent sources of the work are Ḥawārīnāmah written by the Jesuit Father Jérôme Xavier between 1602 and 1607, Lawāmi'-i rabbāniyya by Sayyid Aḥmad Alawī (d. between 1054/1644 and 1060/1650), and Hidāyat al-ḍāllīn of 'Ali Qilī Jadīd al-Islām, the Augustinian convert to Islam of the 12th/17th century.266 483 - The Muslim reception of biblical materials: Ibn Qutayba and his Aʿlām al-nubuwwa(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Schmidtke, SabineThe two earliest extant Muslim works containing comprehensive lists of biblical predictions of the Prophet Muhammad from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are the Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam ʿAlī Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (b. ca. 194/810, d. 251/865) and the Aʿlām al-nubuwwa by Ibn Rabban's contemporary Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba (b. 213/828, d. 276/889). Ibn Qutayba's Aʿlām al-nubuwwa clearly eclipsed Ibn Rabban's Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla in popularity – the text was used over the following centuries by various authors as a reference text for the biblical material it contained. An incomplete and (as it seems) unique manuscript of Ibn Qutayba's work, which is preserved in the Dār al-Kutub al-Ẓāhiriyya in Damascus, has mostly escaped scholars' attention until now. This article contains a critical edition of the first eight sections of the text, which contain biblical materials.
569 934 - New Sources for the Life and Work of Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī(Peeters; Studia Iranica, 2009)Schmidtke, SabineRecently, two codices have been discovered that significantly augment what was hitherto known about Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī's (d. after 906/1501) life and oeuvre. The codices, which are nowdays in the possession of the Kitābkhāna-yi Madrasa-yi 'ilmiyya-yi Marwī in Tehran (MSS Marwī 855 and 874), consist exclusively of writings of Ibn Abī Jumhūr and were evidently copied during his lifetime as is indicated by the numerous autograph ijāzas and marginal notes in the hand of the author. The present paper not only outlines the significance of these findings, but also contains an editio princeps of Ibn Abī Jumhūr's ijāza 'āmma that is contained in MS Chester Beatty 3810 (ff. 328-329b).
358 156 - Notes on an Arabic translation of the Pentateuch in the library of the Twelver Shīʿī scholar Raḍī al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (d. 664/1266)(Brill, 2017)Schmidtke, SabineThe seventh/thirteenth-century Imami scholar Raḍī al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (d. 664/1266) is well known for his rich personal library. He compiled a catalogue of its holdings, al-Ibāna fī maʿrifat (asmāʾ) kutub al-khizāna, which is lost, as well as a supplement to the catalogue, Saʿd al-suʿūd li-l-nufūs manḍūd min kutub waqf ʿAlī b. Mūsā b. Ṭāwūs, which is partly preserved and was perhaps never completed. In the latter work, Ibn Ṭāwūs provided detailed information on selected books in his possession, together with extensive quotations. Here, he describes in detail an Arabic translation of the Pentateuch. The paper discusses Ibn Ṭāwūs’s description of the Pentateuch manuscript and offers tentative conclusions as to its provenance.
407 237 - The People of Monotheism and Justice: Muʿtazilism in Islam and Judaism. Why did Jewish thinkers in the tenth century start to adopt rationalist doctrines?(Institute for Advanced Study; The Institute Letter; Fall 2017, 2017)Schmidtke, Sabine
281 1560 - Preserving Yemen’s Cultural Heritage: The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Project(fairobserver.com, 2011)
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