Il libro sulle credenze delle fazioni dei musulmani e degli associatori di Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī (1149-1210)

Abstract

The paper presents the first translation into an European language of Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī’s doxographical work Kitāb i`tiqādāt firaq al-muslimīn wa 'l-mušrikšīn. The translation is based on ‘Alī Sāmī an-Naššār’s classical edition, Cairo 1356/1938. The text is supplied with a critical and comparative analysis of the most important doxographical works of the Aš`arite shool, such as al- Aš`arite al-islāmiyyīn wa 'ḫtilāf al-muṣallīn, al-Bagdādī’s Kitab al-farq bayna 'l-firaq(and the Muḫtaṣar kitāb al-farq bayna edite by ‘Abd al-Razzāq ar-Ras’ānī), šahrastānī’s Kitāb al-milal wa 'n-niḥal and alIsfarā 'inī's At-tabṣīr fī’dwa tamyīz al-firaq an-nāǧiya ‘an al-firaq al hālikīn.