خلاصة:
This study focuses on the significance of the Dīwān al-Daʿāʾim (Pillars) –
an anthology of poetry by Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad
b. al-Khiḍr b. Sulaymān, known after the name of his clan as Ibn al-Naẓar. The
anthology presents poems steeped in Ibāḍī theology and doctrine. However,
rather than focusing on those aspects, this study intends to analyse commentaries
on the Dīwān from a historical angle so as to obtain a general picture of the
ideas supporting it, as well as the questions it has raised at various times over the
centuries since it was written.¹ The commentaries on al-Daʿāʾim reveal a centuries-
long intellectual interaction between Oman and North Africa (which lasted
from the time they first appeared right up to the last century), as well as the close
ties which existed between the eastern and western Ibāḍī schools. Al-Daʿāʾim was
regarded as a significant work and it – together with its commentaries ‒ is indeed
a unique example of Omani scholarship.
ملخص الجهاز:
¹ The commentaries on al-Daʿāʾim reveal a centu-ries-long intellectual interaction between Oman and North Africa (which lasted from the time they first appeared right up to the last century), as well as the close ties which existed between the eastern and western Ibāḍī schools.
Abstract: Keywords: Dīwān al-Daʿāʾim, Ibāḍī belief and fiqh, Oman, North Africa, Ibn al-Naẓar, al-Qalhātī, Ibn Waṣṣāf, Barrādī, al- Ruqayshī, Muḥammad b.
These commentaries on al-Daʿāʾim reveal a long intellec- tual interaction between Oman and North Africa, as well as the close ties that existed between the eastern and western Ibāḍī schools.
1515/islam-2016-0004 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 04:32:55PM via Freie Universität Berlin Al-Daʿāʾim’s early commentaries It is generally agreed among Omani historians that Muḥammad Ibn Waṣṣāf was al-Daʿāʾim’s first commentator.
⁴ In my opinion this is most likely to be correct, particularly if we compare this view with that of Abū-l-Qāsim al-Barrādī in Shifāʾ al-ḥāʾim sharḥ baʿḍ al-Daʿāʾim, upon which we shall touch later.
1332/1914) ․ maintains that the poem was inserted into al-Daʿāʾim but was not written by Ibn al-Naẓar and that the first person to claim this was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b.
1515/islam-2016-0004 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 04:32:55PM via Freie Universität Berlin religious scholars of his time, was a close friend of Ibn al Naẓar, and it would be reasonable to guess that Faḍīl was a relative of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b.
1515/islam-2016-0004 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/24/2016 04:32:55PM via Freie Universität Berlin Later, a commentary on Ibn al-Naẓar’s Nūniyyah was produced by Aḥmad b.