The Barāhima’s Dilemma : : Ibn al-Rāwandī’s ›Kitāb al-Zumurrud‹ and the Epistemological Turn in the Debate on Prophecy / / Elizabeth G. Price.

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• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society , 13
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When debating the need for prophets, Muslim theologians frequently cited an objection from a group called the Barāhima – either a prophet conveys what is in accordance with reason, so they would be superfluous, or a prophet conveys what is contrary to reason, so they would be rejected. The Barāhima...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Notes on Sources, Translation, and Transliteration
• Abbreviations and Dates
• Introduction: Who Are the Barāhima?
• Section A The Prehistory of the Barāhima’s Dilemma
• Chapter One: The Brahmans in the Antique and Late Antique Imagination
• Chapter Two: The Brahmans in Translation: A Survey of the Early ʿAbbāsid Histories, Legends, and Pseudepigrapha
• Chapter Three: The Brahmans as Ethnographic Subjects: A Survey of Early ʿAbbāsid Travel and Geographical Literature
• Section B The Maturation of the Barāhima’s Dilemma
• Chapter Four: Situating the Barāhima Among the Prophetological Controversies of the Early ʿAbbāsid Period
• Chapter Five: The Epistemological Role of the Barāhima in the Kitāb al- Zumurrud
• Section C The Repercussions of the Barāhima’s Dilemma
• Chapter Six: The Aftermath of the Kitāb al-Zumurrud
• Chapter Seven: The Contradiction Horn: The Bahshamī Defence of the Rationality of Revelation
• Chapter Eight: The Superfluous Horn: The Bahshamiyya on the Problem of Prophetic Futility
• Conclusion: The Legacy of the Barāhima in Early Islamic Thought
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• List of Tables
• List of Appendices
• Index