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{{short description|Set of theological beliefs in the Islamic faith}}
{{hatnote|See [[Islamic schools and branches]] for sectarian divisions within Islam; see [[
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[[File:Abd Allah Musawwir - The Meeting of the Theologians - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|260px|''The Meeting of the Theologians'', [[Persian painting]] by Abd Allah Musawwir (mid-16th century), [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]].]]
'''Schools of Islamic theology''' are various [[Islamic schools and branches]] in different schools of thought regarding
The main schism between [[Sunni Islam|
== Divinity schools in Islamic theology ==
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According to the ''[[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān]]'' (2006),
The original schism between [[Kharijites]], [[Sunni Islam|Sunnīs]], and [[Shia Islam|Shīʿas]] among [[Muslims]] was
''[[Aqidah|ʿAqīdah]]'' is an Islamic term meaning "[[creed]]" or "belief".<ref name="Abdel-Haleem 2008">{{cite book |author-last=Abdel-Haleem |author-first=M. A. S. |author-link=Muhammad Abdel-Haleem |year=2008 |chapter=Part I: Historical perspectives - Qur’an and hadith |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1IiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |editor-last=Winter |editor-first=Timothy |editor-link=Timothy Winter |title=The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology |location=[[Cambridge]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=19–32 |doi=10.1017/CCOL9780521780582.002 |isbn=9781139001816 |access-date=2021-10-19 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051725/https://books.google.com/books?id=O1IiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |url-status=live }}</ref> Any religious belief system, or creed, can be considered an example of ''ʿaqīdah''.
In the
In the 9th–10th century CE, the [[Ash'arism|Ashʿarī school]] developed as a response to the Muʿtazila, founded by the 10th-century Muslim scholar and theologian [[Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari|Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī]].<ref name="Thiele 2016"/> Ashʿarītes still taught the use of reason in understanding the Quran, but denied the possibility
According to the Afghan-American philosopher [[Sayed Hassan Akhlaq|Sayed Hassan Hussaini]], the early schools of Islamic theology and theological beliefs among [[Early Islamic philosophy|classical Muslim philosophers]] are characterized by "a rich color of [[Deism]] with a slight disposition toward [[theism]]".<ref name="Hussaini 2016">{{cite journal |last=Hussaini |first=Sayed Hassan |author-link=Sayed Hassan Akhlaq |date=2016 |title=Islamic Philosophy between Theism and Deism |journal=Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |location=[[Braga]] |publisher=Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |volume=72 |issue=1: ''Teísmos: Aportações Filosóficas do Leste e Oeste / Theisms: Philosophical Contributions from the East to the West'' |pages=65–83 |doi=10.17990/RPF/2016_72_1_0065 |issn=0870-5283 |jstor=43816275}}</ref>
Another point of contention was the relative position of ''[[Iman (concept)|imān]]'' ("faith") contrasted with ''[[Taqwa|taqwā]]'' ("piety"). Such schools of Islamic theology are summarized under ''[[Ilm al-Kalam|ʿIlm al-Kalām]]'', or "science of discourse", as opposed to mystical schools who deny that any theological truth may be discovered by means of discourse or reason.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
== Sunnī schools of theology ==
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[[File:Islamic_schools_of_Jurisprudence.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Madhhab#Sunni|Sunnī schools of thought]]<ref name="Geaves 2021">{{cite book |author-last=Geaves |author-first=Ronald |year=2021 |chapter=Part 1: Sunnī Traditions – Sectarianism in Sunnī Islam |editor1-last=Cusack |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-link=Carole M. Cusack |editor2-last=Upal |editor2-first=M. Afzal |editor2-link=Afzal Upal |title=Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion |volume=21 |doi=10.1163/9789004435544_004 |doi-access=free |isbn=978-90-04-43554-4 |issn=1874-6691 |pages=25–48}}</ref>]]
[[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslims]] are the largest [[Religious denomination|denomination]] of Islam and are known as ''''Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h'''' or simply as ''''[[Ahl as-Sunnah]]''''. The word '''Sunni''' comes from the word '''[[Sunnah]]''', which means the teachings and actions or examples of the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]]. Therefore, the term "Sunni" refers to those who follow or maintain the '''Sunnah''' of [[Muhammad]].
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=== Athari ===
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{{Further|Ahmad ibn Hanbal|Dawud al-Zahiri|Al-Tabari|Al-Tahawi|Ibn Taymiyya}}
Atharism ({{
Earliest atharist such as [[Amir al-Sha'bi]] denounced the use of [[Qiyas]] (analogic deduction), as he strongly relied primarily on scriptural traditions.<ref name="Sha'bi; Siyar A'lam Nubala; Arnauth p.303">{{harvtxt|Al-Dhahabi|1996|p=303}}</ref> He also tried to convince other scholars that Qiyās was not a valid argument.<ref name="Sha'bi; Siyar A'lam Nubala; Arnauth p.311">{{harvtxt|Al-Dhahabi|1996|p=311}}</ref> Al-Sha'bi was recorded to have said: "Beware of Qiyās. For when you use it, you make what is [[halal]] to be [[haram]] and what is haram to be halal.".<ref name="Sha'bi; Ibn Qutayba; p.110">{{cite book |author1=Ibn Qutaybah |author1-link=Ibn Qutaybah |editor1-last=Muḥyī d-Dīn al-Aṣfar |editor1-first=Muḥammad |title=Taʾwīl muḫtalif al-ḥadīṯ |year=1999 |publisher=al-Maktab al-Islāmī |location=Beirut |page=110 |url=https://archive.org/details/waq62864/62864?view=theater#page/n109/mode/2up |access-date=5 August 2024 |language=Ar}}</ref>
For followers of the Athari movement, the "clear" meaning of the Qur'an, and especially the prophetic traditions, has sole authority in matters of belief, and to engage in rational disputation (''kalam''), even if one arrives at the truth, is absolutely forbidden.<ref name="TCSI2010: 36">[[#TCSI2010|Halverson, ''Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam'', 2010]]: 36</ref> Atharis engage in an [[amodal]] reading of the Quran, as opposed to one engaged in ''ta'wil'' (metaphorical interpretation). They do not attempt to conceptualize the meanings of the Quran rationally, and believe that the "real" meaning should be consigned to God alone (''tafwid'').<ref name="TCSI2010: 36-7">[[#TCSI2010|Halverson, ''Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam'', 2010]]: 36-7</ref> In essence, the meaning has been accepted without asking "how" or "[[Bi-la kaifa]]".▼
▲For followers of the Athari movement, the "clear" meaning of the Qur'an, and especially the prophetic traditions, has sole authority in matters of belief, and to engage in rational disputation (''kalam''), even if one arrives at the truth, is absolutely forbidden.<ref name="TCSI2010: 36">[[#TCSI2010|Halverson, ''Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam'', 2010]]: 36</ref> Atharis engage in an
On the other hand, the famous [[Hanbali]] scholar [[Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi|Ibn al-Jawzi]] states, in ''[[Kitab Akhbar as-Sifat]],'' that [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]] would have been opposed to [[anthropomorphic]] interpretations of Quranic texts such as those of al-Qadi Abu Ya'la, Ibn Hamid, and Ibn az-Zaghuni.<ref>Swartz, Merlin. ''A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism''. Brill, 2001, p.134-137 .</ref> Based on [[Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi]]'s criticism of ''[[Athari]]-[[Hanbalis]]'', [[Muhammad Abu Zahra]], a professor of [[Islamic law]] at [[Cairo University]] deduced that the ''Salafi aqidah'' is located somewhere between [[ta'tili]] and [[anthropopathy]] ''([[Absolute (philosophy)|Absolute]] [[Zahir (Islam)|Ẓāhir]]īsm in understanding the [[tashbih]] in Qur'an)''<ref name="Zahra">[[Muhammad Abu Zahra]], ''The history of Madh'habs and Divinity Schools in Islam.''</ref><ref name=news>[http://www.arabnews.com/node/216148 Scholar of renown: Muhammad Abu Zahrah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923231020/http://www.arabnews.com/node/216148 |date=2015-09-23 }}. Ed. Adil Salahi for [[Arab News]]. Published Wednesday, 14 November 2001; accessed Sunday 9 June 2013.</ref> in Islam. ''[[Absolute (philosophy)|Absolute]] [[Zahir (Islam)|Ẓāhir]]īsm'' and total rejection of ''[[ta'wil]]'' are amongst the fundamental characteristics of this ''"new"'' Islamic school of theology.▼
▲On the other hand, the famous [[Hanbali]] scholar [[Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi|Ibn al-Jawzi]] states, in ''[[Kitab Akhbar as-Sifat]],'' that
=== ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ===
{{main|Ilm al-Kalam}}
''[[Ilm al-Kalam|ʿIlm al-Kalām]]'' ({{
▲''[[Ilm al-Kalam|ʿIlm al-Kalām]]'' ({{lang-ar|علم الكلام}}, literally "science of discourse"),<ref name="Abdel-Haleem 2008"/> usually foreshortened to ''kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is a rational undertaking born out of the need to establish and defend the tenets of Islamic faith against doubters and detractors.<ref>Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, p 391. {{ISBN|1438109075}}</ref> ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' incorporates [[Aristotelianism|Aristotelian reasoning]] and [[logic]] into Islamic theology.<ref name="Peters 1980"/> A Muslim scholar of ''kalām'' is referred to as a ''mutakallim'' (plural: ''mutakallimūn'') as distinguished from philosophers, jurists, and scientists.<ref>Clinton Bennett, The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies, p 119. {{ISBN|1441127887}}.</ref> There are many possible interpretations as to why this discipline was originally called ''kalām''; one is that the widest controversy in this discipline has been about whether the [[Logos|Word]] of [[God in Islam|God]], as revealed in the Quran, can be considered part of God's essence and therefore not created, or whether it was made into words in the normal sense of [[speech]], and is therefore [[Quranic createdness|created]].<ref name="Peters 1980"/> There are many schools of Kalam, the main ones being the [[Mutazila]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Daniel H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBjtygnlBtEC&dq=mu%27tazila+kalam&pg=PA72 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy |last2=Leaman |first2=Oliver |last3=H |first3=Frank Daniel |date=2003-09-11 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-65574-3 |language=en |page=72 |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051705/https://books.google.com/books?id=KBjtygnlBtEC&dq=mu%27tazila+kalam&pg=PA72 |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[Ash'ari]] and [[Maturidi]] schools in Sunni Islam. Traditionalist theology rejects the use of kalam, regarding humans reason as sinful in unseen matters.<ref>Hadi Enayat Islam and Secularism in Post-Colonial Thought: A Cartography of Asadian Genealogies Springer, 30.06.2017 {{ISBN|9783319526119}} p.48</ref>
==== Muʿtazila ====
{{main|Muʿtazila}}
{{Further|Wasil Ibn 'Ata'|Ibrahim al-Nazzam
Muʿtazila is a school of theology that appeared in early Islāmic history and were known for their neutrality in the dispute between [[Alī]] and his opponents after the death of the third caliph, [[Uthman]]. By the 10th century CE the term had also come to refer to an Islamic school of speculative theology (kalām) that flourished in Basra and Baghdad (8th–10th century).<ref name=britannica>"[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mutazilah Mutazilah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621175819/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mutazilah |date=2018-06-21 }}", ''[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]]''.</ref><ref name=robinson>{{cite web |url= http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H052 |title= Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila |website= muslimphilosophy.com |author= NEAL ROBINSON |date= 1998 |access-date= 2012-11-05 |archive-date= 2011-11-20 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111120081733/http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H052 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Different views on human freedom – Mu'tazilites and Asharites – Authority in Islam – GCSE Religious Studies Revision – OCR|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zkdkw6f/revision/3|access-date=2021-06-19|website=BBC Bitesize|language=en-GB|archive-date=2021-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621143801/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zkdkw6f/revision/3|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Sunni sources, Muʿtazili theology originated in the eighth century in [[Basra]] (now in Iraq) when [[Wasil ibn Ata|Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭā']] (died 131 AH/748 AD) withdrew (''iʿtazala'', hence the name Mu'tazila) from the teaching lessons of [[Hasan al-Basri]] after a theological dispute regarding the issue of ''al-Manzilah bayna al-Manzilatayn'' (''a position between two positions''), where Wasil ibn Ata reasoned that a grave sinner (fāsiq) could be classed neither as believer nor unbeliever but was in an intermediate position (al-manzilah bayna manzilatayn).<ref name=ad>{{cite book|last=Dhanani|first=Alnoor|title=The physical theory of Kalām : atoms, space, and void in Basrian Muʻtazilī cosmology|url=https://archive.org/details/physicaltheoryka00dhan|url-access=limited|date=1994|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9004098312|page=[https://archive.org/details/physicaltheoryka00dhan/page/n6 7]}}</ref>▼
▲Muʿtazila is a school of theology that appeared in early Islāmic history and were known for their neutrality in the dispute between [[Alī]] and his opponents after the death of the third caliph, [[Uthman]].
The later Mu'tazila school developed an [[Islam]]ic type of rationalism, partly influenced by [[Ancient Greek philosophy]], based around three fundamental principles: the oneness (''[[Tawhid]]'') and justice (''[[Theodicy|Al-'adl]]'') of [[God in Islam|God]],<ref name="Fakhry-46">{{cite book| last=Fakhry |first=Majid |edition=second |title=A History of Islamic Philosophy |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |year=1983|page=46|quote=Almost all authorities agree that the speculation of the Muʿtazilah centeres around the two crucial concepts of divine justice and unity, of which they claim to be the exclusive, genuine exponents.}}</ref> human freedom of action, and the creation of the Quran.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x|doi = 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x|title = The Mu'tazila in Islamic History and Thought|year = 2012|last1 = Campanini|first1 = Massimo|journal = Religion Compass|volume = 6|pages = 41–50|access-date = 2021-01-09|archive-date = 2021-07-19|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210719180624/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x|url-status = live}}</ref> The Muʿtazilites are best known for rejecting the doctrine of the [[Quranic createdness|Quran as uncreated and co-eternal with God]],<ref name=as>Abdullah Saeed. ''The Qur'an: an introduction''. 2008, page 203</ref> asserting that if the Quran is the word of God, he [[logic]]ally "must have preceded his own speech".<ref name=SKHE-77>{{cite book|last1=Kadri|first1=Sadakat|title=Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World|date=2012|publisher=macmillan|isbn=9780099523277|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC|access-date=2015-09-16|archive-date=2021-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225135025/https://books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC|url-status=live}}</ref> This went against the orthodox Sunni position which argued that with God being all knowing, his knowledge of the Quran must have been eternal, hence uncreated just like him.<ref>[[Nader El-Bizri]], ‘God: essence and attributes’, in ''The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic theology'', ed. Tim Winter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 121-140</ref> Though Muʿtazilis later relied on [[Logic in Islamic philosophy|logic]] and different aspects of [[early Islamic philosophy]], [[ancient Greek philosophy]], and [[Indian philosophy]], the basics of Islam is their starting point and ultimate reference.<ref name=rw>{{cite book|author=Walzer, R.|year=1967|chapter=Early Islamic Philosophy|title=The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy|editor=A. H. Armstrong|editor-link=A. H. Armstrong|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=UK|isbn=0-521-04054-X|ref={{harvid|Walzer|1967}}}}</ref><ref name=wc>{{cite book|author=Craig, W. L.|year=2000|title=The Kalam Cosmological Argument|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers|location=USA|isbn=1-57910-438-X|ref={{harvid|Craig|2000}}}}</ref>▼
▲The later Mu'tazila school developed an [[Islam]]ic type of rationalism, partly influenced by [[Ancient Greek philosophy]], based around three fundamental principles: the oneness (''[[Tawhid]]'') and justice (''[[Theodicy|Al-'adl]]'') of [[God in Islam|God]],<ref name="Fakhry-46">{{cite book| last=Fakhry |first=Majid |edition=second |title=A History of Islamic Philosophy |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |year=1983|page=46|quote=Almost all authorities agree that the speculation of the Muʿtazilah centeres around the two crucial concepts of divine justice and unity, of which they claim to be the exclusive, genuine exponents.}}</ref> human freedom of action, and the creation of the Quran.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x|doi = 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x|title = The Mu'tazila in Islamic History and Thought|year = 2012|last1 = Campanini|first1 = Massimo|journal = Religion Compass|volume = 6|pages = 41–50|access-date = 2021-01-09|archive-date = 2021-07-19|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210719180624/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x|url-status = live}}</ref> The Muʿtazilites are best known for rejecting the doctrine of the [[Quranic createdness|Quran as uncreated and co-eternal with God]],<ref name=as>Abdullah Saeed. ''The Qur'an: an introduction''. 2008, page 203</ref> asserting that if the Quran is the word of God, he [[logic]]ally "must have preceded his own speech".<ref name=SKHE-77>{{cite book|last1=Kadri|first1=Sadakat|title=Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World|date=2012|publisher=macmillan|isbn=9780099523277|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC|access-date=2015-09-16|archive-date=2021-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225135025/https://books.google.com/books?id=ztCRZOhJ10wC|url-status=live}}</ref> This went against the orthodox Sunni position which argued that with God being all knowing, his knowledge of the Quran must have been eternal, hence uncreated just like him.<ref>[[Nader El-Bizri]], ‘God: essence and attributes’, in ''The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic theology'', ed. Tim Winter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 121-140</ref>
Though Muʿtazilis later relied on [[Logic in Islamic philosophy|logic]] and different aspects of [[early Islamic philosophy]], [[ancient Greek philosophy]], and [[Indian philosophy]], the basics of Islam is their starting point and ultimate reference.<ref name=rw>{{cite book|author=Walzer, R.|year=1967|chapter=Early Islamic Philosophy|title=The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy|editor=A. H. Armstrong|editor-link=A. H. Armstrong|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=UK|isbn=0-521-04054-X|ref={{harvid|Walzer|1967}}}}</ref><ref name=wc>{{cite book|author=Craig, W. L.|year=2000|title=The Kalam Cosmological Argument|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers|location=USA|isbn=1-57910-438-X|ref={{harvid|Craig|2000}}}}</ref>
Several groups were later influenced by Muʿtazilite theology, such as the [[Bishriyya]], who followed the teachings of [[Bishriyya#Distinction from Mu'tazila|Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir]], and the [[Bahshamiyya]], who followed the teachings of [[Abu Hashim al-Jubba'i]].<ref>Humanism in the renaissance of Islam: the cultural revival during the [[Buyid|Buyid Age]], by Joel Kramer,{{ISBN|90-04-07259-4}}, {{ISBN|978-90-04-07259-6}}</ref><ref>Frank, Richard M. "The Autonomy of the Human Agent in the Teaching of 'Abd al-Gabbar." Le Muséon 95(1982): 323–355</ref>
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==== Ashʿarīyyah ====
{{main|Ash'ari}}
{{Further|Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari|Al-Ghazali
Ashʿarīyyah is a school of theology that was founded by the Arab Muslim scholar, reformer, and scholastic theologian [[Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari|Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī]]
It established an orthodox guideline<ref>{{cite journal |last=Frank |first=Richard M. |date=January–March 1989 |title=Knowledge and Taqlîd: The Foundations of Religious Belief in Classical Ashʿarism |journal=[[Journal of the American Oriental Society]] |volume=109 |issue=1 |publisher=[[American Oriental Society]] |pages=37–62 |doi=10.2307/604336 |jstor=604336 |issn=0003-0279 |lccn=12032032}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Glassé |editor-first=Cyril |year=2003 |orig-year=1989 |title=[[The New Encyclopedia of Islam]] |chapter=Ashʿarī |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC&pg=PA61 |location=[[Walnut Creek, California]] and [[Lanham, Maryland]] |publisher=[[AltaMira Press]] |edition=3rd Revised |pages=61–63 |isbn=978-0-759-10190-6 |oclc=1291928025 |access-date=2022-09-04 |archive-date=2022-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709081228/https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC&pg=PA61 |url-status=live }}</ref> based on [[Islamic holy books|scriptural authority]],<ref name="Nasr 2006" /><ref name="Thiele 2016" /><ref name="Frank 2020">{{cite book |author-last=Frank |author-first=Richard M. |year=2020 |origyear=2007 |chapter=Al-Ashʿarī's conception of the nature and role of speculative reasoning in theology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkX1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |editor1-last=Frank |editor1-first=Richard M. |editor2-last=Gutas |editor2-first=Dimitri |editor2-link=Dimitri Gutas |title=Early Islamic Theology: The Muʿtazilites and al-Ashʿarī – Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām, Vol. II |location=[[London]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |edition=1st |pages=136–154 |doi=10.4324/9781003110385 |isbn=9780860789789 |s2cid=169898034 |lccn=2006935669 |access-date=2022-09-04 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051705/https://books.google.com/books?id=tkX1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[rationality]],<ref name="Nasr 2006" /><ref name="Frank 2020" /><ref name="Hoover 2020">{{cite book |author-last=Hoover |author-first=John |year=2020 |chapter=Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (''taʾwīl'') of God’s Attributes |chapter-url=https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/3741348/1/Hoover%20%20J.%20Early%20Mamluk%20Ash%27arism.%20Pre-proof%20Deposit |editor1-last=Shihadeh |editor1-first=Ayman |editor2-last=Thiele |editor2-first=Jan |title=Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=Islamicate Intellectual History |volume=5 |pages=195–230 |doi=10.1163/9789004426610_009 |isbn=978-90-04-42661-0 |s2cid=219026357 |issn=2212-8662 |lccn=2020008682 |access-date=2022-09-04 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051711/https://books.google.com/books?id=B3znDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Halverson|2010|pages=14-15}}<ref>Weeks, Douglas. "The Ideology of Al Muhajiroun." Al Muhajiroun. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020. 103-140.</ref> and theological [[rationalism]].<ref name="Nasr 2006" /><ref name="Frank 2020" />{{sfn|Halverson|2010|pages=14-15}}<ref>Gyekye, Kwame. "Theology and Law in Islam." (1976): 304-306.</ref><ref>Fah̲rī, Mağīd. Ethical theories in Islam. Vol. 8. Brill, 1991.</ref><ref>Hashas, Mohammed. "Is European Islam Experiencing an Ontological Revolution for an Epistemological Awakening?." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31: 4 (2014): 14.</ref> As a young man, al-Ashʿarī studied under [[al-Jubba'i]], a renowned teacher of [[Muʿtazila|Muʿtazilite theology]] and [[Early Islamic philosophy|philosophy]].<ref>Marshall Cavendish Reference, Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim World, p 87. {{ISBN|0761479295}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Allard|first=Michel|title=Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī, Muslim theologian|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abu-al-Hasan-al-Ashari#ref260804|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029094518/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abu-al-Hasan-al-Ashari#ref260804|archive-date=2020-10-29|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2021-04-01}}</ref> He was noted for his teachings on [[atomism]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hmp/14.htm |title=Ash'ari - A History of Muslim Philosophy |access-date=2022-09-04 |archive-date=2018-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527145604/http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hmp/14.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> among the [[Early Islamic philosophy|earliest Islamic philosophies]], and for al-Ashʿarī this was the basis for propagating the view that [[God in Islam|God]] created every moment in [[time]] and every particle of [[matter]]. He nonetheless believed in [[Free will in theology|free will]], elaborating the thoughts of Dirar ibn 'Amr and [[Abu Hanifa]] into a "dual agent" or "acquisition" (''iktisab'') account of free will.<ref>Watt, Montgomery. Free-Will and Predestination in Early Islam. Luzac & Co.: London 1948.</ref>
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==== Mātūrīd’iyyah ====
{{main|Maturidi}}
{{Further|Abu Mansur al-Maturidi|Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi|Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi|Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi|Jalal al-Din Rumi}}
The [[Maturidi]] school was founded by [[Abu Mansur al-Maturidi]], and is the most popular theological school amongst Muslims, especially in the areas formerly controlled by the [[Ottoman dynasty|Ottomans]] and the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]]. Today, the Maturidi school is the position favored by the ''[[Ahl ar-Ra'y]]'' ("people of reason"), which includes only the [[Hanafi]] school of fiqh who make up the majority of Sunni Muslims.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Campo|first=Juan Eduardo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&q=In+fact%2C+the+Hanafis+were++known+as+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Opinion%E2%80%9D+and+were++opposed+by+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Hadith.%E2%80%9D|title=Encyclopedia of Islam|date=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2696-8|pages=287|language=en|access-date=2021-02-16|archive-date=2022-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051706/https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&q=In+fact%2C+the+Hanafis+were++known+as+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Opinion%E2%80%9D+and+were++opposed+by+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Hadith.%E2%80%9D|url-status=live}}</ref>▼
▲The [[Maturidi]] school was founded by [[Abu Mansur al-Maturidi]] (853–944), and is the most popular theological school amongst Muslims, especially in the areas formerly controlled by the [[Ottoman dynasty|Ottomans]] and the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]]. Today, the Maturidi school is the position favored by the ''[[Ahl ar-Ra'y]]'' ("people of reason"), which includes only the [[Hanafi]] school of fiqh who make up the majority of Sunni Muslims.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Campo|first=Juan Eduardo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&q=In+fact%2C+the+Hanafis+were++known+as+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Opinion%E2%80%9D+and+were++opposed+by+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Hadith.%E2%80%9D|title=Encyclopedia of Islam|date=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2696-8|pages=287|language=en|access-date=2021-02-16|archive-date=2022-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051706/https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC&q=In+fact%2C+the+Hanafis+were++known+as+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Opinion%E2%80%9D+and+were++opposed+by+the+%E2%80%9CPeople+of+Hadith.%E2%80%9D|url-status=live}}</ref>
The Maturidi school takes the middle position between the Ash'ari and Mu'tazili schools on the questions of knowing truth and [[free will]]. The Maturidis say that the unaided human mind is able to find out that some of the more major sins such as alcohol or murder are evil without the help of revelation, but still maintain that revelation is the ultimate source of knowledge. Additionally, the Maturidi believe that God created and can control all of His creation, but that He allows humans to make individual decisions and choices for themselves.
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== Jahmiyyah ==
{{main|Jahmites}}
[[Jahmi]]s were the followers of the Islamic theologian [[Jahm bin Safwan]] who associate himself with [[Al-Harith ibn Surayj]]. He was an exponent of extreme [[determinism]] according to which a man acts only metaphorically in the same way in which the sun acts or does something when it sets.<ref name="pest">{{cite journal|last=Watt|first=W. Montgomery|date=May 1970|editor-last=Pestman|editor-first=P. W.|title=The study of the development of the Islamic sects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k84UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA85|journal=Acta Orientalia Neerlandica: Proceedings of the Congress of the Dutch Oriental Society Held in Leiden on the Occasion of Its 50th Anniversary|page=85}}</ref>
== Qadariyyah ==
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[[Qadariyyah]] is an originally derogatory term designating early Islamic theologians who asserted human beings are ontologically free and have a perfect free will, whose exercise justifies divine punishment and absolving God of responsibility for evil in the world.<ref name="Qadariyyah">{{cite encyclopedia|year=2014|title=Qadariyyah|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-512558-0|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001/acref-9780195125580-e-1901|editor=John L. Esposito|url-access=subscription|access-date=2016-07-09|archive-date=2018-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211646/http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001/acref-9780195125580-e-1901|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>J. van Ess. Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed, Brill. "Ķadariyya", vol.4, p. 368.</ref> Their doctrines were adopted by the [[Mu'tazili]]s and rejected by the [[Ash'ari]]s.<ref name="Qadariyyah" /> The tension between free will and God's omnipotence was later reconciled by the [[Maturidi]] school of theology, which asserted that God grants human beings their agency, but can remove or otherwise alter it at any time.
[[Hasan al Basri]] (642 - 728) was the first who defined ''Qadariyya'' doctrines in a systematic way: 1) God creates only good, evil stems from free will. 2) Humanity has free will to choose doing the will of God or not. 3) God only leads humans astray if they first have given him the occasion to do so by demonstrating the intention to sin.<ref>Cosman, Madeleine Pelner, and Linda Gale Jones. Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set. Infobase Publishing, 2009. p. 392</ref> Related to the question of the origin of evil is the nature of the [[Iblis|devil]] (''Iblīs''). By asserted the origin of the devil lies in his free will to sin, ''Qadariyya'' and later ''Mutazilites'' rejected the angelic origin of Iblīs.<ref>Basharin, Pavel V. (April 1, 2018). "The Problem of Free Will and Predestination in the Light of Satan's Justification in Early Sufism". English Language Notes. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 56 (1): 119–138.</ref><ref>Omar Hamdan Studien zur Kanonisierung des Korantextes: al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrīs Beiträge zur Geschichte des Korans Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 2006 ISBN 978-3447053495 pp. 291–292 (German)</ref> [[Amr ibn Ubayd]] (died 761), one of Hasan's later students, became a leading figure in the Mutazilite movement, still advocating the ''Qadariyya'' belief in free will independent of God.<ref>Salem, Feryal. The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism: ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunnī Identity in the Second Islamic Century. Vol. 125. Brill, 2016. p. 32</ref>
== Muhakkima ==
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{{Muhakkima Islam |expanded=all}}
The groups that were seceded from [[Ali]]'s army in the end of the [[Battle of Siffin#Arbitration|Arbitration Incident]] constituted the branch of ''Muhakkima'' ({{
=== Khawarij ===
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The [[Kharijites]] considered the [[caliphate]] of [[Abu Bakr]] and [[Umar]] to be rightly guided but believed that [[Uthman ibn Affan]] had deviated from the path of justice and truth in the last days of his caliphate, and hence was liable to be killed or displaced.
The Kharijites thus deemed the arbitrators ([[Abu Musa Ashaari|Abu Musa al-Ashʿari]] and [[Amr Ibn Al-As]]), the leaders who appointed these arbitrators ([[Ali]] and [[Muawiyah I|Muʿāwiyah]]) and all those who agreed on the arbitration (all companions of [[Ali]] and [[
Kharijites reject the doctrine of [[Ismah|infallibility]] for the leader of the Muslim community, in contrast to Shi'a but in agreement with Sunnis.<ref>[[Al-Baydawi|Baydawi, Abdullah]]. "Tawali' al- Anwar min Matali' al-Anzar", circa 1300. Translated alongside other texts in the 2001 "Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam" by Edwin Elliott Calverley and James Wilson Pollock. pp. 1001–1009</ref> Modern-day Islamic scholar [[Abul Ala Maududi]] wrote an analysis of Kharijite beliefs, marking a number of differences between Kharijism and Sunni Islam. The Kharijites believed that the act of sinning is analogous to [[Kufr]] (disbelief) and that every grave sinner was regarded as a [[Kafir|Kāfir]] (disbeliever) unless he repents. With this argument, they denounced all the above-mentioned [[Ṣaḥābah]] and even cursed and used abusive language against them. Ordinary Muslims were also declared disbelievers because first, they were not free of sin; secondly they regarded the above-mentioned [[Ṣaḥābah]] as believers and considered them as religious leaders, even inferring [[Islamic jurisprudence]] from the [[Hadith|Hadeeth]] narrated by them.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> They also believed that it is not a must for the [[caliph]] to be from the [[Quraysh (tribe)|Quraysh]]. Any pious Muslim nominated by other Muslims could be an eligible [[caliph]].<ref name="ReferenceA" /> Additionally, Kharijites believed that obedience to the caliph is binding as long as he is managing the affairs with justice and consultation, but if he deviates, then it becomes obligatory to confront him, demote him and even kill him.
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== Murji'ah ==
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[[Murji'ah]] ({{
== Shīʿa schools of theology ==
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=== Zaydi-Fivers ===
The [[Zaidiyyah|Zaydi]] denomination of Shīʿa Islam is close to the Muʿtazila school in matters of theological doctrine. There are a few issues between both schools, most notably the Zaydi doctrine of the [[Imamate in Shia doctrine|Imamate]], which is rejected by the Muʿtazilites. Amongst the Shīʿa, Zaydis are most similar to Sunnīs,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0591/9105024.htm |title=Telling the truth for more than 30 years – Sunni-Shi'i Schism: Less There Than Meets the Eye |publisher=WRMEA |access-date=30 November 2013 |archive-date=23 April 2005 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20050423070201/http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0591/9105024.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> since Zaydism shares similar doctrines and jurisprudential opinions with Sunnī scholars.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQvhZaEVzjcC&q=zaydi+similar+sunni&pg=PA23 |title=Yemen: The Bradt Travel Guide – Daniel McLaughlin – Google Books |date=February 2008 |access-date=30 November 2013 |isbn=9781841622125 |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Daniel |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051707/https://books.google.com/books?id=eQvhZaEVzjcC&q=zaydi+similar+sunni&pg=PA23 |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Bāṭin’iyyah ===
{{main|Batin (Islam)|Esoteric interpretation of the Quran|Sufi cosmology}}
{{further|Sevener|Qarmatians|Fatimid Islamic Caliphate|Hashashins}}
The [[Batiniyyah|Bāṭen’iyyah]] was originally introduced by Abu’l-Khāttāb Muhammad ibn Abu Zaynab al-Asadī,<ref name="ABU’L-ḴAṬṬĀB ASADĪ">{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abul-kattab-mohammad-b|title=Abu'l-Ḵaṭṭāb Asadī|access-date=22 April 2015|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211621/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abul-kattab-mohammad-b|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ḴAṬṬĀBIYA">{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kattabiya|title=Ḵaṭṭābiya|access-date=22 April 2015|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211615/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kattabiya|url-status=live}}</ref> and later developed by [[Maymun al-Qaddah|Maymūn al-Qaddāh]]<ref name="Öz">Öz, Mustafa, ''Mezhepler Tarihi ve Terimleri Sözlüğü (The History of [[madhhab]]s and its terminology dictionary),'' Ensar Yayıncılık, [[
==== Imami-Ismā'īlīs ====
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* Their [[ʿAqīdah|aqidah]] ''(theological conviction)'' is based upon a syncretic [[fiqh]] system called as "[[Batiniyya]]-[[Sufism]]"<ref name="BĀṬENĪYA"/> which incorporates some ''[[Qarmatian]] sentiments,'' originally introduced by ''"Abu’l-Khāttāb Muhammad ibn Abu Zaynab al-Asadī"'',<ref name="ABU’L-ḴAṬṬĀB ASADĪ"/><ref name="ḴAṬṬĀBIYA"/> and later developed by [[Maymun al-Qaddah|Maymun al-Qāddāh]] and his son [[Abd Allah ibn Maymun al-Qaddah|ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymun]].<ref name="MAYMŪN"/>
* On the other hand, the members of [[Bektashi Order]] have a conviction of "[[Batiniyya]] [[Isma'ilism]]"<ref name="BĀṬENĪYA"/> and "[[Hurufism]]" with a strong belief in ''[[The Twelve Imams]]''.
* In conclusion, [[Qizilbash]]-Alevis are not
* The [[Twelver]] branch of [[Shia Islam]] [[Muslim]] population of [[Turkey]] is composed of [[Mu'tazila]] [[ʿAqīdah|aqidah]] of [[Ja'fari jurisprudence]] [[madhhab]], [[Batiniyya]]-[[Sufism]] [[ʿAqīdah|aqidah]] of Maymūn’al-Qāddāhī [[fiqh]] of the Alevīs, and Cillī [[aqidah]] of Maymūn ibn [[Al-Tabarani|Abu’l-Qāsim Sulaiman ibn Ahmad ibn at-Tabarānī]] [[fiqh]] of the [[Alawites]].<ref name="Meymûn"/><ref>Both ''Muhammad ibn Āliyy’ūl Cillī'' and ''Maymūn ibn [[Al-Tabarani|Abu’l-Qāsim’at-Tabarānī]]'' were the [[murid]]s of ''"[[Al-Khaṣībī]]",'' the founder of the [[Ibn Nusayr|Nusayri]] [[tariqa]].</ref>
{{further|Al-Hallaj|Sevener|Qarmatians|Baba Ishak|Babai Revolt|Hassan II (imam)|Nur al-Din Muhammad II}}
===== Baktāshism ''(Bektaşilik)'' =====
{{main|Bektashism}}
[[File:Hajji Bektash Wali.jpeg|thumb|262px|The founder of the [[Bektashiyyah]] [[sufi]] order, [[Haji Bektash Veli|Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli ''(Ḥājjī Baktāsh Walī)'']]
====== Baktāshi Islamic School of Divinity ======
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{{main|Twelvers|Imamah (Shia Twelver doctrine)}}
[[Twelvers]] believe in the twelve Shīʿa Imams. The [[Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine)|twelfth Imam]] is believed to be in [[The Occultation|occultation]], and will appear again just before the ''Qiyamah'' (Islamic view of the Last Judgment). The Shia ''hadiths'' include the sayings of the Imams
==== Imami-Ja'faris ====
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======‘Alawite Islamic School of Divinity ======
Alawites consider themselves to be Muslims, although some Sunnis dispute that they are.<ref name=globsec>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-alawi.htm "Alawi Islam"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613094303/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-alawi.htm |date=2008-06-13 }}. Globalsecurity.org</ref> Alawite doctrine
Alawite beliefs have never been confirmed by their modern religious authorities.<ref name="Yunis 1992, p. 63">'Abd al‑Latif al‑Yunis, Mudhakkirat al‑Duktur 'Abd al‑Latif al‑Yunis, Damascus: Dar al‑`Ilm, 1992, p. 63.</ref> Alawites tend to conceal their beliefs (''[[taqiyya]]'') due to historical persecution.<ref name=telegraph>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8684113/Secretive-sect-of-the-rulers-of-Syria.html Secretive sect of the rulers of Syria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415183214/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8684113/Secretive-sect-of-the-rulers-of-Syria.html |date=2022-04-15 }}, [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]], 05 Aug 2011</ref> Some tenets of the faith are secret, known only to a select few;<ref name="GlobSec">{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-alawi.htm |title=Alawi Islam |publisher=Globalsecurity.org |access-date=2014-03-29 |archive-date=2008-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613094303/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-alawi.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3GB31QSFmVYC&q=Yaron+Friedman|title=The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs|access-date=22 April 2015|isbn=978-9004178922|last1=Friedman|first1=Yaron|year=2010|publisher=BRILL |archive-date=18 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051707/https://books.google.com/books?id=3GB31QSFmVYC&q=Yaron+Friedman|url-status=live}}</ref> therefore, they have been described as a [[Mysticism|mystical]] sect.<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-JVOKeNkllgC&q=alawi+syncretic&pg=PA75 |title=Lebanon: current issues and background, John C. Rolland (2003) |publisher=Nova |date=1 August 2003 |access-date=25 December 2012 |isbn=9781590338711 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051707/https://books.google.com/books?id=-JVOKeNkllgC&q=alawi+syncretic&pg=PA75 |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition to [[Muslim holidays|Islamic festivals]], the Alawites have been reported to celebrate or honor certain Christian festivals such as the [[Nativity of Jesus|birth of Jesus]] and [[Palm Sunday]].<ref name="Kaplan">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199302/kaplan|title=Syria: Identity Crisis|last=Kaplan|first=Robert|date=February 1993|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-03-11|archive-date=2018-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211629/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/02/syria-identity-crisis/303860/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Glasse>{{cite book|last=Glasse|first=Cyril|title=New Encyclopedia of Islam|date=2001|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|page=105|edition=Revised}}</ref> Their most-important feast is [[Eid al-Ghadeer]].
======The ‘Alawite ʿaqīdah======
Alawites have always described themselves as being Twelver Shi'ite Muslims and have been recognized as such by the prominent Lebanese Shi'ite cleric [[Musa al-Sadr]].<ref name="Kramer">{{cite web|url=http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/reader/archives/syria-alawis-and-shiism/|title=Syria's ''Alawis and Shi'ism|last=Kramer|first=Martin|date=11 January 2010|quote=In their mountainous corner of Syria, the 'Alawī claim to represent the furthest extension of Twelver Shi'ism.|access-date=2 August 2014|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211635/http://martinkramer.org/sandbox/reader/archives/syria-alawis-and-shiism/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Sunni [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]] [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]] issued a ''fatwa'' recognising them as part of the [[Ummah|Muslim community]] in the interest of [[Arab nationalism]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Talhamy | first1 = Y. | title = The Fatwas and the Nusayri/Alawis of Syria | doi = 10.1080/00263200902940251 | journal = Middle Eastern Studies | volume = 46 | issue = 2 | pages = 175–194 | year = 2010 | s2cid = 144709130 }}</ref><ref name="Bar-AsherKootstra2002">{{cite book|author1=Me'ir Mikha'el Bar-Asher|author2=Gauke de Kootstra|author3=Arieh Kofsky|title=The Nuṣayr−i-ʻalaw−i Religion: An Enquiry Into Its Theology and Liturgy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2bli4DyuHRIC&pg=RA1-PA153|access-date=18 March 2011|year=2002|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-12552-0|pages=1|archive-date=18 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051707/https://books.google.com/books?id=2bli4DyuHRIC&pg=RA1-PA153|url-status=live}}</ref> However, [[Athari]] Sunni (modern day [[Salafi]]s) scholars such as [[Ibn Kathir]] ''(a disciple of [[Ibn Taymiyya]])'' have categorised Alawites as [[Paganism|pagans]] in their writings.<ref name="GlobSec"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17085226|title=Syria crisis: Deadly shooting at Damascus funeral|work=BBC News|date=18 February 2012|access-date=22 April 2015|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211617/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17085226|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="abdullah">Abd-Allah, Umar F., ''Islamic Struggle in Syria'', Berkeley : Mizan Press, c1983, pp. 43–48</ref>
[[Barry Rubin]] has suggested that Syrian leader [[Hafiz al-Assad]] and his son and successor [[Bashar al-Assad]] pressed their fellow Alawites "to behave like ''regular Muslims,'' shedding (or at least concealing) their distinctive aspects".<ref>{{cite book|last=Rubin|first=Barry|title=The Truth about Syria|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/truthaboutsyria00rubi_0/page/49 49]|isbn=9781403982735|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/truthaboutsyria00rubi_0/page/49}}</ref> During the early 1970s a booklet, ''al-`Alawiyyun Shi'atu Ahl al-Bait'' ("The [[Alawites]] are Followers of [[Ahl al-Bayt|the Household of the Prophet]]") was published, which was "signed by numerous 'Alawi' men of religion", described the doctrines of the [[Imami]] Shia as Alawite.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abd-Allah|first=Umar F.|title=Islamic Struggle in Syria|location=Berkeley|publisher=Mizan Press|year=1983 |pages=43–48|isbn=0933782101 }}</ref>
Some sources have discussed the "Sunnification" of [[Alawites]] under the al-Assad regime.<ref name=dilemma/> [[Joshua Landis]], director of the Center for Middle East Studies, writes that [[Hafiz al-Assad]] "tried to turn Alawites into 'good' (read Sunnified) Muslims in exchange for preserving a modicum of secularism and tolerance in society". On the other hand, Al-Assad "declared the Alawites to be nothing but Twelver Shiites".<ref name=dilemma>[http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2004/10/asads-alawi-dilemma.htm Syrian comment. Asad's Alawi dilemma] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194959/http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2004/10/asads-alawi-dilemma.htm |date=2016-03-04 }}, 8 October 2004</ref> In a paper, "Islamic Education in Syria", Landis wrote that "no mention" is made in Syrian textbooks (controlled by the Al-Assad regime) of [[Alawites]], [[Druze]], [[Ismailism|Ismaili]]s or Shia Islam; Islam was presented as a monolithic religion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/Islamic%20Education%20in%20Syria.htm|title=Islamic Education in Syria: Undoing Secularism|publisher=OU|access-date=25 December 2012|archive-date=28 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228101011/http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/Islamic%20Education%20in%20Syria.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Ali Sulayman al-Ahmad, chief judge of the Baathist Syrian state, has said: {{Cquote|We are [[‘Alawi]] [[Muslims]]. Our book is the [[Qur'an]]. Our prophet is [[Muhammad]]. The [[Kaaba|Ka`ba]] is our [[qibla]], and our [[Dīn]] ''(religion)'' is [[Islam]].<ref name="Yunis 1992, p. 63"/>}}
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====== The Qizilbash ʿaqīdah ======
[[File:Arolsen Klebeband 01 457 1.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Shah Ismail I]], the [[Sheikh]] of the [[Safaviyya|Safavi]] [[tariqa]], founder of the [[Safavid dynasty]] of [[Iran]], and the [[Commander-in-chief]] of the [[Kızılbaş]] [[army|armies]] had contributed a lot for the development and implementation of ''The [[Qizilbash]] [[ʿAqīdah]]'' amongst the [[Turkmen people]].]]
[[Qizilbash]] and [[Bektashi]] [[tariqah]] shared common religious beliefs and practices becoming intermingled as [[Alevi]]s in spite of many local variations. Isolated from both the [[Sunni]] [[Ottoman dynasty|Ottomans]] and the [[Twelver]] [[shia islam|Shi`a]] [[Safavids]], [[Qizilbash]] and [[Bektashi]] developed traditions, practices, and doctrines by the early 17th century which marked them as a closed autonomous religious community. As a result of the immense pressures to conform to Sunni Islam, all members of [[Alevism]] developed a tradition of opposition ''([[Antinomianism|ibāḥa]])'' to all forms of external religion.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
The doctrine of [[Qizilbash]]ism is well explained in the following poem written by the [[Shaykh]] of [[Safaviyya]] [[tariqah]] [[Ismail I|Shāh Ismāʿil Khatai]]:
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١ّللَه بير محممد على́دير / [[God in Islam|Allah]] bir [[Muhammad-Ali]]'dir. ''([[God in Islam|Allah]] is unique [[Muhammad-Ali]])''}}
The lines of poetry above may easily be judged as an act of
{{Further|Khatai|Muhammad-Ali|Haqq-Muhammad-Ali}}
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=== Anthropopathy in the history of Ghulāt Shīʿīsm ===
{{main|Anthropopathism|Anthropotheism}}
The belief of [[Incarnation]] was first emerged in [[Abdullah ibn Saba'|Sabaʾiyya]], and later some
{{further|Ghulāt|List of extinct Shia sects|Kaysanites Shia|Khurramites}}
== Ahmadiyya ==
{{Ahmadiyya|collapsed=1}}
The [[Ahmadis]]' beliefs are more aligned with the Sunni tradition,
Ahmadi teachings state that the founders of all the major world religions had divine origins. God was working towards the establishment of Islam as the final religion, because it was the most complete and included all the previous teachings of other religion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/The_Promised_Messiah_Prophecies_Fulfilled-20081007MN.html |title=The Promised Messiah – Prophecies Fulfilled |publisher=Alislam.org |access-date=2011-08-13| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110725000642/http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/The_Promised_Messiah_Prophecies_Fulfilled-20081007MN.html| archive-date= 25 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> (but they believe that all other religions have gone astray in their present form). The completion and consummation of the development of religion came about with the coming of Muhammad; and that the perfection of the ‘manifestation’ of Muhammad's prophethood and of the conveyance of his message was destined to occur with the coming of the [[Mahdi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=2739®ion=E1&CR=EN,E2 |title=The Holy Quran |publisher=Alislam.org |access-date=2011-08-13| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110725000651/http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=2739®ion=E1&CR=EN,E2| archive-date= 25 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are not Muslims{{clarification needed|date=April 2024}} but regard [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], who claimed to be the promised [[Messiah]] ("[[Second Coming]] of [[Jesus|Christ]]") the [[Mahdi]] awaited by the Muslims and a [[Prophethood (Ahmadiyya)|'subordinate' prophet]] to Muhammad whose job was to restore the Sharia given to Muhammad by guiding or rallying disenchanted [[Ummah]] back to Islam and thwart attacks on [[Islam]] by its opponents, as the "Promised One" of all religions fulfilling eschatological prophecies found in the scriptures of the [[Abrahamic religions]], as well as [[Zoroastrianism]], the [[Indian religions]], [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American traditions]] and others.<ref name="ita_4">Invitation to Ahmadiyyat by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad Part II, Argument 4, Chapter "Promised Messiah, Promised One of All Religions"</ref> Ahmadi Muslims believe that Ahmad was divinely commissioned as a true reflection of Muhammad's prophethood to establish the unity of God and to remind mankind of their duties towards God and God's creation.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q78O1mjX2tMC&q=simon+ross+valentine+ahmadiyya | title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice | pages=32–33 | author=Simon Ross Valentine | publisher=Columbia University Press | isbn=978-0-231-70094-8 | year=2008 | access-date=2020-10-28 | archive-date=2022-11-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051706/https://books.google.com/books?id=Q78O1mjX2tMC&q=simon+ross+valentine+ahmadiyya | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/2007WCJSSpeech_20071228.pdf | title=Raising Ahmadi Children in the West | author=Nasir Mahmood Malik, National Tarbiyyat Secretary, USA | publisher=Al Islam | access-date=10 June 2011 | year=2007 | archive-date=27 September 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927222512/http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/2007WCJSSpeech_20071228.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>
== See also ==
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== References ==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book |author1=Al-Dhahabi |author1-link=Al-Dhahabi |editor1-last=al-Arna'ut |editor1-first=Shu'ayb |editor1-link=Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut |title=Siyar aʿlām an-nubalāʾ |year=1996 |publisher=Muʾassasat ar-Risāla |location=Beirut |url=https://archive.org/details/11950/san04?view=theater#page/n293/mode/2up |access-date=5 August 2024 |language=Ar}}
== Further reading ==
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*{{cite journal |author-last=Sabra |author-first=A. I. |date=January 2009 |title=The Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline |journal=[[Early Science and Medicine]] |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |volume=14 |issue=1-3: ''Evidence and Interpretation: Studies on Early Science and Medicine in Honor of John E. Murdoch'' |pages=68–78 |doi=10.1163/157338209X425506 |issn=1573-3823 |jstor=20617778 |pmid=19831225}}
*{{cite book |editor-last=al-Salimi |editor-first=Abdulrahman |year=2021 |title=Early Ibadi Theology: New Material on Rational Thought in Islam from the Pen of al-Fazārī (2nd/8th Century) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIs5EAAAQBAJ |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=Islamic History and Civilization |volume=182 |doi=10.1163/9789004459571 |isbn=978-90-04-45957-1 |s2cid=243595906 |issn=0929-2403 |oclc=1256592318 |access-date=2022-01-20 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051709/https://books.google.com/books?id=CIs5EAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}
*{{cite journal |author-last=Thiele |author-first=Jan |date=December 2018 |title=Recent Scholarship in the Field of ''kalām'' |journal=[[Studia Islamica]] |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |volume=113 |issue=2 |pages=223–243 |doi=10.1163/19585705-12341378 |hdl=10261/173270 |s2cid=159335485 |issn=1958-5705|hdl-access=free }}
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