نصوص أدبيّة: T-S Ar.47.238 + T-S Ar.48.195

الوصف

The Treatise on Abrogation of the Law (Kitāb naskh al-shar‘) is concerned with one of the most pressing questions of interreligious debate among Jews, Christians, and Muslims: the mutability of divine law. The doctrine of abrogation undergirded both Christian and Muslim claims about revelation, and Muslims analyzed it according to rigid linguistic features and particular theological claims. The Treatise on Abrogation of the Law survives in two versions. In this excerpt from the second version, Samuel ben Ḥofni Ga’on tackles some routine linguistic issues and relates some of the varied approaches taken by Jews to this doctrine. This work survived only in the Cairo Geniza but was quoted repeatedly in the later Middle Ages. (Information from Posen Library)