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 "id": "person/al-ashari",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-ashari",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبو الحسن الأشعري",
  "en": "Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "متكلم من أهل السنة، تُنسب إليه الأشعرية، صاحب «مقالات الإسلاميين» الذي عرض فيه قول أهل الحديث والسنة وقال إنه يذهب إليه، وتصفه طبعة الكتاب بأنه شيخ أهل السنة والجماعة.",
  "en": "A Sunni theologian to whom the Ash'ari school is attributed, author of Maqalat al-Islamiyyin in which he sets out the position of the hadith scholars and Ahl al-Sunna and says he holds it; the edition of the book calls him the shaykh of Ahl al-Sunna wa'l-Jama'a."
 },
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 ],
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  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "creed"
 ],
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو الحسن علي بن إسماعيل الأشعري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "theologian"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "The title page of the edition calls him the shaykh of Ahl al-Sunna wa'l-Jama'a and he ends the creed report by saying he holds it.",
    "sources": [
     "source/maqalat-islamiyyin"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مقالات الإسلاميين، ج1 صفحة العنوان وص 350",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "ashari-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/maqalat-islamiyyin"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; from the title page and the closing statement, undated (a second source is needed), no prose"
  }
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 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
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  {
   "to": "work/maqalat-islamiyyin",
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  "work/maqalat-islamiyyin",
  "concept/ahl-al-qibla",
  "concept/akhira",
  "concept/ashara-mubashshara",
  "concept/ashrat-al-saa",
  "concept/bida",
  "concept/hubb-al-sahaba",
  "concept/hurmat-al-dam"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}