8vo. xii, 604 pp., summary in English & Arabic, publisher’s original wrappers, lightly foxed at spine, otherwise copy inside clean & in very good condition, unopened, biblio, index. Beiruter Texte Und Studien. Band 19. Franz Steiner Verlag, Beirut, 1975.

Synopsis

Mu’ammar Ibn Abbad As-Sultani, a leading Mu’tazilite from Basra. His theology is an impressive result of Islamic philosophizing to the end of the 8th century A.D. It is the first metaphysical system and contains philosophical thoughts, which remind us of Aristotelian teachings as well as of Platonic-Neoplatonic thinking.