An Ismaili Heresiography: The 'Bāb al-Shayṭān' from Abū Tammāms' <i>Kitāb al-shajara</i>: Islamic History and Civilization, cartea 23

Wilferd Madelung is Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford.
Paul E. Walker, Ph.D. (1974), University of Chicago, is the author of several books and a number of smaller studies on various aspects of Ismaili history and doctrine.

Presents the "Chapter on Satan"(Bāb al-shayṭān) from a long unrecognized Ismaili work called the Kitāb al-shajara by the 4th/10th century Khurāsānī dā‘ī, Abū Tammām.
The satans of Abū Tammām's "Chapter" are the founders and instigators of the seventy-two heretical sects of Islam. Each sect has been accorded a relatively lengthy description as perceived from a generally Shī‘ī and Mu‘tazilī point of view. Most entries offer new information about these sects and, in several cases, the account given is for a sect almost completely unknown in the existing Islamic heresiographical literature.
The volume contains both a critical edition of the "Bāb al-shayṭān", and a complete English translation of it.