A Critique of a Faulty Edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s Risāla-yi Fuṣūl
Document Type : pajoohesh
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10.22081/jap.2026.80053
Abstract
‛Aqīdat al-Shī‛a is a collection of seventy concise and medium-length theological treatises on the fundamental doctrines of Shi’i Islam, composed by Imāmī theologians from the second to the tenth centuries AH. The volume was compiled and published by Shaykh Muḥammad-Reḍā Anṣārī Qummī. In an earlier review of the first edition of this work, a number of its evident errors and shortcomings were identified and discussed. The present article evaluates the third edition of the collection and, through an examination of the edited text of Risāla-yi Fuṣūl by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, highlights additional mistakes and deficiencies in the publication. The study demonstrates that the compiler of ‛Aqīdat al-Shī‛a published these treatises without observing the established principles and standards of critical textual editing, thereby producing a flawed and error-ridden edition of important Shi’i doctrinal texts.
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