Abstract
Abstract
The Mukhtaṣar fī l-imāma is most likely authored by Zayd b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Bayhaqī al-Burūghanī (d. c. 545/1150), an Iranian Zaydi scholar who, toward of the end of his life, settled in Yemen. The work draws extensively on Kitāb al-Diʿāma by the Zaydi Imam of northern Iran, Abū Ṭālib al-Hārūnī (d. 424/1033), and survives as an addendum to al-Hārūnī's Ziyādāt Sharḥ al-uṣūl, itself a commentary on Ibn Khallād's Muʿtazili theological handbook, Kitāb al-Uṣūl. In this treatise, the author undertakes a systematic refutation of Muʿtazili and Imami Shiʿi doctrines concerning the imamate.