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This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam and Studies in Medieval Shiism). The first sections contain articles examining intellectual and historical aspects of Mu'tazilism, the Ibadiyya.

A collection of studies in religious and ethnic aspects of medieval Islam, including subjects such as Al-Hamdani's description of Northern Yemen in the light of chronicles of the 4th-10th and 5th-11th centuries, land tax and ownership in Northern Yemen and Najran, the origins of the Yemenite Hijra.

Includes articles that examine legal and political aspects of early Shi'ism. In this book, studies relate to doctrinal views of the Zaydi imams al-Qasim b Ibrahim al-Rassi and al-Natiq bi-I-Haqq and to Zaydi attitudes to Sufism. It also focuses on the Isma'iliyya, their social and political history and aspects of their religious thought.