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Al-Ash‘arī’s Tract on Faith
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Wilhehn Spitta in the body of his Zur Geschichte Abu'l-Hasan al-Aś‘ari's (Leipzig, 1876) published the text (pp. 138–40) and translation (pp. 101–4) of a brief but important tract by al-Ash‘arī on the uncreatedness of faith: Mas'ala fi 'l-īmān. (This treatise is recorded in C. Brockelmann, GAL, I, 195, as Risālat al-īmān; presumably it is the same as the Kitāb al-īmān mentioned in Suppl., I, 346.) Spitta's edition, which is in general excellent, was based on a Cairo manuscript, believed until now to be unique.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 160 - 166
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957
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page 160 note 1 Spitta 
page 160 note 2 Spitta 
page 160 note 3 See al. Yāfi‘ī, , Mir’āt al-janān, IV, 15; Ibn al-‘Imād, Shadharāt al-dhahab, v, 25.Google Scholar
page 160 note 4 See Brockelmann, GAL, I, 365, Suppl., I, 624.
page 161 note 1 Shadharāt al-dhahab, v, 242.
page 161 note 2 See Brockelmann, Suppl., I, 589.
page 161 note 3 See Mir'āt al-zamān, iv, 38; Shadharāt al-dhahab, v, 73–5.
page 161 note 4 See Shadharāt al-dhahab, v, 294.
page 161 note 5 See al-Durar al-kāmina, Vf, 382.
page 161 note 6 See al-Durar al-kāmina, III, 98.
page 161 note 7 Ibid., n, 397.
page 161 note 8 Ibid., I, 318.
page 162 note 1 Ibid., iv, 21.
page 162 note 2 Ibid., iv, 404.
page 162 note 3 On this see Derrett, The Hoysalas, Oxford (to be published), 195 ff., and for a general description of taxation policy in South India see Mahalingam, South Indian polity, Madras, 1955, index sub tit. Taxation, Taxes.
page 163 note 1 India. Archaeological Survey, Epigraphia Carnatica, v, Hasan 84 (1223); ix, Bangalore 6 1253); v, Belur 74 (1261); vi, Kadur 49 (1291).
page 163 note 2 See Hayley, F.W., A treatise on the laws and customs of the Sinhalese including the portions still surviving under the name Kandyan Law, Colombo, 1923, sub tit. rājakāriya.Google Scholar
page 164 note 1 The record is Epigr. Carn., v, Channarayapatna 238, at Nuggihalli. The text is printed in Kannaḍa script at p. 671 of part II of the volume.
page 164 note 2 The monetary system was 1 gadyāna (gold) = 10 paṇ;as (gold); 1 pa็as = 4 hāgas; 1 hāga = 2 bēḷes.
page 165 note 3 A Brahman teacher of literature at an endowed institution during this period could expect an annual salary of 6 gadyāṇas.