''Lubābu l-Muhassal fi Usul al-Din'' (لباب المحصل في أصول الدين) is a book on
Islamic theology
Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding '' ʿaqīdah'' (creed). The main schools of Islamic Theology include the Qadariyah, Falasifa, Jahmiyya, Murji'ah, Muʿtazila, Batin ...
by the scholar
Ibn Khaldūn, written in around 1351 (752
AH).
[IBN JALDUN: STUDIES. Ibn Khaldun: the Mediterranean in the 14th century: rise and fall of Empires, Fundación José Manuel Lara. Fundación El legado andalusì, 2006.] The book was Khaldūn's first work, written when he was 19
[ or 20][ years old. ''Lubābu l-Muhassal'' is a commentary on ''Muhassal Afkar al-Mutaqaddimin wa al-Muta'akhkhirin'', a work on theology by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. Khaldūn wrote the book under the supervision of his teacher al-Ābilī while living in ]Tunis
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.[Khaldūn, Ibn, and Mohamed-Aziz Lahbabi. ''Ibn Khaldūn''. Seghers, 1970.]
Although Ibn Khaldūn had written the book in Tunis, it was only in manuscript form, however, it was undoubtedly prepared by Khaldūn sometime between 1372 (774 AH) and 1374 (776 AH), while living in Fez, Morocco
Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès, Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the List of cities in Morocco, second largest city i ...
. Both the later copies as well as the 1351 original manuscript are still extant, written in the author's handwriting.[
An English translation of Khaldūn's work, entitled ''Treatise in Logic'', was published in 1952.
The book is thought to be something of an exam paper or final project for his master, Al-Abili; the book testifies to Ibn Khaldūn's early grasp of the philosophical and theological material of the '' Takhlis al-Muhassal'', a standard work of ''kalam''.]Allen James Fromherz
Allen Fromherz (born May 10, 1980) is an American historian specializing in the Middle East and Mediterranean. From 2007 to 2008 he was a professor at Qatar University. He joined the faculty of Georgia State University in 2008. Since 2015, Fromherz ...
, ''Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times''. 2011.
See also
* Asas al-Taqdis
Asās al-Taqdīs ( ar, أساس التقديس, lit=The Foundation of Declaring Allah's Transcendence), also known as Ta'sis al-Taqdis ( ar, تأسيس التقديس, lit=The Establishment of the Sacred) is an Islamic theological book, written b ...
* Al-Insaf fima Yajib I'tiqaduh
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* The Moderation in Belief
Al-Iqtisād fī al-iʿtiqad (), or The Moderation in Belief is a major theological work by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazali. George Hourani indicated that the ''Iqtisad'' and ''Mizan al-amal'' were completed before or during
Gha ...
* List of Sunni books
This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim.
The Qur'an and its translations (in English)
:# ''The Meaning of the Glorio ...
References
Islamic theology books
Treatises
Ash'ari literature
Kalam
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