Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b Mūsā an-Nawbakhtī was a Persian and leading Shī'ī theologian and philosopher in the first half of the 10th century. The Nawbakhtī family boasted a number of scholars famous at the Abbāsid court of Hārūn al-Rashīd. Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa is best known for his book about the Shi'a sects titled Firaq al-Shi'a.Life
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa al-Nawbakhti was the nephew of the theologian philosopher Abū Sahl ibn Nawbakht. Among his fellow translators of books of philosophy were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, and Thābit ibn Qurra. It was claimed al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa was both Muʿtazila and Shī’a for the Nawbakht family were known followers of ‘Alī.
He transcribed a large number of books and wrote books on theology, philosophy and other topics.
His book Firaq aš-šī'a is the earliest surviving complete work on the Shiite sects, and the oldest text from an imamitic perspective on the differences between the various Islamic sects and their origins within Shiism.Works
- ''ar-Radd 'alā' l-ġulāt '
Titles listed in al-Fihrist">Ibn al-Nadim#Al-Fihrist">al-Fihrist
- Kitāb al-arā' wa-'d-diyānāt ; Doctrines and Religions
- Kitāb ar-radd alā' aṣḥāb at-tanāsukh ; Refutation of Upholders of Transmigration
- Kitāb at-tawḥīd wa ḥadīth al-Ilal ; Oneness and the Principal Cause
- Kitāb naqḍ Refutation Book
- Kitāb Abū ‘Īsā fī ‘l-gharīb al-mashraqī ; Refutation of the Book of Abū ‘Īsā about the Unusual Eastern
- Kitāb Ikhtiṣārī Ikhtiṣār al-kūn wa’l-fasād li-Arisṭālīs ; Abridgement of Aristotle’s “De Generatione et Corruptione”
- Kitāb al-Ihtijāj li ‘Umar ibn ‘Abbād wa nuṣrat madhabuhu ; Proof by Umar ibn ‘Abbād and a Defense of his Doctrines
- Kitāb al-Āmāmat ; ‘The Imamate’
