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Ash'ariyyah
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Ash'ariyyah

School of Muslim theology founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari in the 10th century. It supported the use of reason and speculative theology (kalam) to defend the faith but was not as extreme in its rationalism as the Mu'tazilah school. Followers attempted to demonstrate the existence and nature of God through rational argument, while affirming the eternal, uncreated nature of the Qur'an. They were accused by the Mu'tazilah of believing in predestination because they claimed the human capacity for action was only acquired at the very moment of action.



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Ali Akbar Ash'ari who is visiting South Africa, in his meeting with the head of that country's National Library, John K.
According to historical sources, Zabid had answered the call of Islam conveyed by Abu Mousa Al Ash'ari and his companions, by the beginning of the eighth year of the Hijra.
I believe that the importance of this kind of work in our present age is already prefigured by the following quotation from al-Imam Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani, the great Ash'ari mutakallim and logician.
 
 
 
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