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The work is lost. References in the Murūj and Tanbīh indicate that, not unlike the Maqālāt al-Islāmiyyīn of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī, it was primarily a descriptive account of various religious groups, though outside as well as inside Islam. There are no indications that it contained explicit polemic against any of them.

In Murūj, iv, p. 407 (see also v, …