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Al-Sultān Al-Hattāb's Treatise On the IĞāz Al-Qur¸Ān

Al-Sultān Al-Hattāb's Treatise On the IĞāz Al-Qur¸Ān AL-SULT � N AL-HATT � B'S TREATISE ON THE I ��� Z AL-QUR¸ � N BY ISMAIL K. POONAWALA University of California, Los Angeles he author of this treatise dealing with the al-Qur'an is a TYemeni al-Sultan al-Hattab b. Hasan (or Husayn) b. Abi al-Hifaz al-Haguri al-Hamdani (d. 533/1138). He came from a family of chiefs of al-Hagur, a clan of Hamdan inhabiting the northwest district of Yemen, and lived during the reign of the Sulayhid queen Arwa when the latter's power and the Fatimid in- fluence in Yemen were waning.' He was also a poet, warrior, and a ruler in the district of al-Hagur. After the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir (d. 524/1130) when the Yemeni dacwa severed its relation with the Hafizi dacwa in Egypt in the name of al-Amir's son Tayyib, al-Hattab held the second highest rank, al-madi7n, in the hierarchy of the Musta?li-Tayyibi da<wa and played an important role in shaping the destiny of the Ismacill community in Yemen.2 2 The risäla, as stated in the introduction, was compiled to support the views expressed in another risala entitled Risdlat al-burhdn al- anwar fin i?gaz surat al-kawtar (Treatise concerning the most illuminating proof about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Arabica Brill

Al-Sultān Al-Hattāb's Treatise On the IĞāz Al-Qur¸Ān

Poonawala, Ismail K.
Arabica , Volume 41 (1): 84 – Jan 1, 1994
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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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AL-SULT � N AL-HATT � B'S TREATISE ON THE I ��� Z AL-QUR¸ � N BY ISMAIL K. POONAWALA University of California, Los Angeles he author of this treatise dealing with the al-Qur'an is a TYemeni al-Sultan al-Hattab b. Hasan (or Husayn) b. Abi al-Hifaz al-Haguri al-Hamdani (d. 533/1138). He came from a family of chiefs of al-Hagur, a clan of Hamdan inhabiting the northwest district of Yemen, and lived during the reign of the Sulayhid queen Arwa when the latter's power and the Fatimid in- fluence in Yemen were waning.' He was also a poet, warrior, and a ruler in the district of al-Hagur. After the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir (d. 524/1130) when the Yemeni dacwa severed its relation with the Hafizi dacwa in Egypt in the name of al-Amir's son Tayyib, al-Hattab held the second highest rank, al-madi7n, in the hierarchy of the Musta?li-Tayyibi da<wa and played an important role in shaping the destiny of the Ismacill community in Yemen.2 2 The risäla, as stated in the introduction, was compiled to support the views expressed in another risala entitled Risdlat al-burhdn al- anwar fin i?gaz surat al-kawtar (Treatise concerning the most illuminating proof about

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