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SHAHRASTANI [Abu'l-Fath Mahommed ibn `Abdalkarim ush-Shahrastani] (1076 or 10861153)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 770 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHAHRASTANI [Abu'l-Fath Mahommed ibn `Abdalkarim ush-Shahrastani] (1076 or 10861153) Arabian theologian and jurist, was born at Shahrastan in Khorasan and studied at Jurjaniyah and Nishapur, devoting his attention chiefly to Ash'arite theology. He made the
pilgrimage
  in 1116, on his way back stayed at Bagdad for three years, then returned to his native place. His
chief
 
work
  is the Kitab ul Mild wan-Niltal, an account of religious sects and philosophical schools, publishedby W. Cureton (2 vols., London, 1846) and translated into German by T. Haarbriicker (2 vols.,
Halle
 , 1850-1851). After a
preface
  of five chapters dealing with the divisions of the human race, an enumeration of the sects of
Islam
 , the objections of Satan against God and against Mahomet and the principles on which the sects may be classified, he deals with (1) the sects of
Islam
  in detail, (2) the possessors of a written
revelation
  (
Jews
  and Christians) or something resembling it (the Magi), (3) the men who follow their own reason, i.e. the philosophers of
Greece
  and their followers among the Moslems; the pre-Islamic Arabs, the Indians and the
heathen
 . Among Shahrastani's other works still in manuscript only are a history of philosophers, a dogmatic text-book and a treatment of seven metaphysical questions.
A brief account of him is given on the authority of his pupil, the historian Sam`ani, in Ibn Khallikan, vol. ii., pp. 675 if. (G. W. T.)


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