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Maqalat al-Islamiyyin wa-Ikhtilaf al-Musallin

مقالات الإسلاميين واختلاف المصلين

A book by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari setting out the positions of the Muslim sects and the theologians, whose first volume closes with a report of the position of the hadith scholars and Ahl al-Sunna that he then says he holds.

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Authored by
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

People and things also explored

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ariThe people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sinThe pen-and-paper incidentThe hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoningThe ten promised ParadiseSigns of the HourBid'a (religious innovation)Love of the Companions and how to speak of them (in the Tahawi creed)

Sources

  • Maqalat al-Islamiyyin, al-Ash'ari (ed. Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid)
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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples.
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Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

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.