Kitab Jala’ al-‘Uqul fi ‘Ilm al-Usul
Kitab Jala’ al-‘Uqul fi ‘Ilm al-Usul is an eighteen-chapter theological work listed among Ibn Kabar’s writings, treating Christian doctrines including divine unity, the Trinity, and the Incarnation.[^1]
Contents and attribution
Kitab Jala’ al-‘Uqul fi ‘Ilm al-Usul is listed among Ibn Kabar’s writings. It comprises eighteen chapters addressing theological questions and providing a detailed account of Christian beliefs, including the oneness of the Godhead, the Trinity, and the Incarnation.1
Relationship to Tiryaq al-‘Uqul
The work is sometimes identified with a similar text entitled Tiryaq al-‘Uqul fi ‘Ilm al-Usul, which is attributed to Ibn al-‘Assal and also associated with Butrus al-Sadamanti.2
A separate entry, however, attributes Tiryaq al-‘Uqul to the thirteenth-century physician, priest, and author Abu al-Khayr al-Rashid ibn al-Tayyib. It describes a principal dogmatic section of twenty-four chapters and a second part explaining and defending Christian morality.3 That entry also states that al-Mu‘taman Abu Ishaq ibn al-‘Assal incorporated an excerpt from the Tiryaq into his Majmu‘ Usul al-Din.4
References
Sources
- 1.The Coptic Encyclopedia, Volume 5 — Aziz S. Atiya (Editor in Chief) (p. 283)
(4) Kitab Jala’ al-‘Uqul fi‘Ilm al-Usul, in eighteen chapters, on theological problems comprising a detailed account of Christian beliefs and doctrines, from the oneness of godhead to the Trinity and the Lord's incarnation.
- 2.The Coptic Encyclopedia, Volume 5 — Aziz S. Atiya (Editor in Chief) (p. 283)
This work is sometimes identified with a similar text by Ibn al-‘Assal under the title Tiryaq al-‘Uqul fi Ilm al-Usul (On the mysteries of the Christian faith), also associated with Butrus al-Sadamanti;
- 3.The Coptic Encyclopedia, Volume 1 — Aziz S. Atiya (Editor in Chief) (p. 62)
ABU AL-KHAYR AL-RASHID IBN AL-TAYYIB, thirteenth-century physician, priest, and author. The most significant, modern source of information on him is G. Graf's Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur (1947, Vol. 2, pp. 344-48), from which the following data come. His writings, largely in defense of Christianity, were composed in the period between 1204 and about 1245 at the latest. Among these is Tiryaq al-‘Uqul fi ‘Ilm al’Usul (Theriac of the Understanding in the Science of the Fundamentals), a work he wrote at the instigation of the vizier Taqi al-Din. It was to serve as an "antidote
- 4.The Coptic Encyclopedia, Volume 1 — Aziz S. Atiya (Editor in Chief) (p. 62)
Al-Mu‘taman Abu Ishaq ibn al-‘Assal took an excerpt from the Tiryaq for his Majmu‘ Usul al-Din (Compendium of the Principles of Religion)
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