Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi

Life

Works

• Al-Jāmiʿ, a book on jurisprudence.
• Kitāb aʿlām al-nubuwwa, a refutation of Abū Bakr al-Rāzī.
• Kitāb al-Iṣlāḥ, “the oldest extant Ismāʾilī work presenting a Neoplatonic world-view.” Written as a corrective to the views of his contemporary Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī.
• Kitāb al-Zīna, on the superiority of the Arabic language and on religious terminology.