Al-Milal wa al-Nihal
From WikiProjectMed
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Book by Muhammad al-Shahrastani
Kitāb al–Milal wa al-Nihal (Arabic: كتاب الملل والنحل, The Book of Sects and Creeds), written by the Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Shahrastani (d. 1153 CE), is a non-polemical study of religious communities and philosophies that had existed up to his time, considered to be the first systematic study of religion. It was written around 1127-1128 and divides religions between sects, which have written doctrines, and creeds which do not.
A French translation of the book by Gimaret, Monnot and Jolivet was sponsored by UNESCO (Livre des religions et des sectes. Leuven, Peeters: vol. I, 1986, Vol. II, 1993).
See also
References
- Ian Richard Netton (19 December 2013). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Routledge. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-135-17960-1.
International | |
---|---|
National | |
Other |
This article related to a book about religion is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Retrieved from "https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Al-Milal_wa_al-Nihal"
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with TDVİA identifiers
- All stub articles
- Religious studies book stubs
- Kalam
- Sunni literature
- Ash'ari literature
- Islamic theology books
- Religious studies books
- 12th-century Arabic-language books