البداية من الكفاية
Al-Bidāya min al-Kifāya
Māturīdī theology at the point where a student stops receiving statements and starts following proofs — the step between the Ṭaḥāwiyya and al-Taftāzānī.
The text
Public domain, no copy we can vouch for yet
Al-Ṣābūnī died in 580 AH so the text is public domain, but the only digitised copies are of Fatḥallāh Khulayf’s critical edition, which is not. We would rather say so than link to it.
In English — ours
Not yet. We translate rather than reprint, so the English for this book begins the day its first lesson is taught.
We link rather than mirror. The classical texts are out of copyright, but the modern printed editions of them are not, so we point you at a library that already carries one instead of putting somebody else’s edition on our server. What we do host is our own work.
Lessons
Not written yet. This book is on the map so you can see where it sits in the course, not because it is ready to study here.