Bibliotheca Islamica (BI) is the Orient-Institut Beirut's platform for the critical edition of mainly Arabic texts. The series dates back to 1929, when Hellmut Ritter edited the
Kitab Maqalat al-islamiyin wa- tilaf al-musallin of Abu l-Hasan Ali al-Asari, a seminal text on dogmatic positions in the early Islamic period. Since then, the OIB has published more than fifty titles in this series.
The book Jala al-absar(The Clear-Sightedness) by Mutazili theologian al-Hakim Abu Sad/Sa'id al-Muhsin/al-Muhassin b. Muhammad b. Karrama al-Jushami al-Bayhaqi (413-494/1022-1101) is a compendium of the lessons the author gave at the Jusham Mosque in Nishapur. They were given after the Friday Prayer over a period of three years from Ramadan 478/Dec-Jan 1086 to Ramadan 481/Dec 1088. The lessons were held over sixty sessions.
Abdulrahman al-Salimi, German University of Technology, Sultanate of Oman.
