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This hefty volume is, then, the final one in the series of six whose publication began in 1991. The reader who expects to find finally a summary that deserves the name will be disappointed. As I already suggested in my review of volume I in Der Islam, LXXI, 1994, pp. 363-7, the well-nigh total lack of attempts at recapitulation, which is equally true for this last volume, may put off many readers. Although Van Ess does occasionally hold out the promise that he will eventually provide some sort of a review, this has not materialized. In other words, volume IV makes just as heavy reading as the previously published volumes. But the German style remains wonderfully clear, pointed, at times hilarious and on the whole deligthful, all the way to the end. The volume closes with a bibliography covering more than one hundred pages and truly magnificent indexes for all six volumes comprising more than 200 pages. In this volume Van Ess ends the prosopographical survey of primarily Mu'tazilite theologians of Iraq. The Basrans 'Abbad b. Sulayman and Shah h am are dealt with. The sunna does not yet play a role of importance but hadiths describing miracles performed by the Prophet begin to attrac
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- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- HU
- Field
- Social Sciences