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Article: Majlis: Discours sur l'Ordre et la creation.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- July 1, 2002
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Majlis: Discours sur l'Ordre et la creation. Edited and translated by DIANE STEIGERWALD. Saint-Nicolas, Quebec: PRESSES DE L'UNIVERSITE LAVAL, 1998. Pp. 168. $35 (paper).
Taj al-Din Abu'l-Fath Muhammad b. Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani (d. 548/1153) was one of the most learned theologians of his time. He is generally recognized as a Shafi i Ashc ari Sunni scholar, well versed in philosophical traditions, and as the author of a famous book on religions and Islamic sects, the Kitab al-Milal wa'l-nihal. But in recent decades, modern scholarship has brought to light a new aspect of this enigmatic and original Muslim thinker's thought. In particular, by analyzing three ...