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In Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr's (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity, Damaris Wilmers provides the first extensive analysis of Ibn al-Wazīr's thought and its role in the "Sunnisation of the Zaydiyya", emphasizing its significance for conflicts between schools of thought and law beyond the Yemeni context. Contrasting Ibn al-Wazīr's works with those of his Zaydi contemporary Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā, Damaris Wilmers offers a study of a number of heretofore unedited texts from 9th/15th century Yemen when Zaydi identity was challenged by an increasing theological and legal diversity. She shows how Ibn al-Wazīr, who has been classed with different schools, actually de-emphasized school affiliation and developed an integrative approach based on a unique theory of knowledge.

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) --- God (Islam) --- Ijtihād (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Qiyās (Islamic law) --- Allah --- Monotheism (Islam) --- Islam --- Islamic epistemology --- Islamic philosophy --- Ibn al-Wazīr, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, --- Ibn al-Murtaḍá, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, --- Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Murtaḍá, --- Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Murtaḍá, --- Murtaḍá, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, --- احمد بن يحيى بن المرتضى، --- احمد بن يحيى المرتضى، --- مرتضى، احمد بن يحيى، --- إبن المرتض، أحمد بن يحي، --- إبن المرتضى، أحمد إبن يحيى، --- إبن المرتضى، أحمد بن يحي، --- ابن المرتضى، أحمد بن يحي --- ابن المرتضى، أحمد بن يحيى --- ابن المرتضى، أحمد بن يحيى، --- بن المرتضى، أحمد بن يحيى، --- زبيدي، أحمد بن يحيى، --- الزبيدي، أحمد بن يحيى، --- مهدي لدين الله، --- المهدي لدين الله، --- مهدي، أحمد بن يحيى، --- المهدي، أحمد بن يحيى، --- Zubaydī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, --- Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh, --- Mahdī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, --- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Wazīr, --- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Wazīr al-Ṣanʻānī, --- Ṣanʻānī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Wazīr, --- ابن الوزير، محمد بن إبراهيم، --- ابن الوزير، محمد بن ابراهيم --- محمد بن إبراهيم الوزير اليمني