Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Theory

by Duncan Black MacDonald

D. B. Macdonald: The Emancipation of Slaves under Muslim Law. American Monthly Review of Reviews, March, 1900.

IV
On Muslim Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism

Theodor Haarbrücker: Asch-Schahrastâni’s Religionsparteien und Philosophenschulen übersetzt und erklärt. 2 vols. Halle, 1850-51. The Arabic text, without which Haarbrücker’s German is sometimes hardly intelligible, was published by Cureton, London, 1846.

T. J. de Boer: Geschichte der Philosophie im Islam. Stuttgart, 1901. Unsatisfactory but the best that there is. It is only a sketch and takes hardly sufficient account of theology and mysticism.

Stanley Lane-Poole: Studies in a Mosque. II edition. London, 1893. Miscellaneous essays, lightly written but trustworthy.

Krehl: Beiträge zur Characteristik der Lehre vom Glauben in Islam. Leipzig, 1877.

G. von Vloten: Les Hachwia et Nabita. Eleventh Congress of Orientalists, part iii, pp. 99 ff. On early religious sects.

G. von Vloten: Irdja. ZDMG, xiv, pp. 181 ff. On the Murji’ites.

Eduard Sachau: Über de religiosen Anschauungen der ibaditischen Muhammedaner in Oman und Östafrica. Mitth. a. d. Sem. f. Orient. Sprachen. Berlin, 1899.