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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 [[Aqidahaqidah]] for the concept of "creed" in Islam; see [[Kalamkalam]] for the concept of theological discourse.}}
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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 ''[[Aqidahaqidah|ʿaqīdahcreed]]'' (creed). The main schools of Islamic Theologytheology include the extant [[Mu'tazilism|Mu'tazili]], [[Ash'arism|AshʿarīAsh'ari]], [[Maturidism|MāturīdīMaturidi]], and [[Traditionalist theology (Islam)Atharism|AṯharīAthari]] schools; the extinct ones include the [[Qadariyah|Qadari]], [[JahmiyyaJahmi]], [[Murji'ah]], [[Mu'tazilism|MuʿtazilaMurji']], and [[Batiniyya|Batini]], schools.
 
The main schism between [[Sunni Islam|SunnīSunni]], [[Shia Islam|ShīʿaShia]], and [[Kharijites|KharijiteKhariji]] branches of Islam was initially more political than theological, but over time theological differences have developed over time throughout the [[history of Islam]].<ref name="Izutsu 2006">{{cite book |last=Izutsu |first=Toshihiko |author-link=Toshihiko Izutsu |year=2006 |origyear=1965 |title=The Concept of Belief in Islamic Theology: A Semantic Analysis of Imān and Islām |chapter=The Infidel (''Kāfir''): The Khārijites and the origin of the problem |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PDxHG5MtLawC&pg=PA1 |location=[[Tokyo]] |publisher=Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at [[Keio University]] |pages=1–20 |isbn=983-9154-70-2 |access-date=2021-10-19 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051704/https://books.google.com/books?id=PDxHG5MtLawC&pg=PA1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
== Divinity schools in Islamic theology ==
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According to the ''[[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān]]'' (2006), "{{blockquote|The [[Quran|Qurʾān]] displays a wide range of theological topics related to the religious thought of [[late antiquity]] and through its prophet [[Muhammad|Muḥammad]] presents a coherent vision of the creator, the cosmos and man. The main issues of Muslim theological dispute prove to be hidden under the wording of the qurʾānic message, which is closely tied to Muḥammad's [[Sīra|biography]]".<ref name="EoQ-Quran">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Nagel |author-first=T. |year=2006 |title=Theology and the Qurʾān |editor-last=McAuliffe |editor-first=Jane Dammen |editor-link=Jane Dammen McAuliffe |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān]] |volume=V |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |doi=10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_00203 |isbn=90-04-14743-8}}</ref>}} However,Modern modernscholars of the [[Historyhistory of Islam|historians]] and scholars of [[Islamic studies]] recognizesay that some instances of theological thought were already developed among [[Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia|polytheistic Paganspolytheists]] in [[pre-Islamic Arabia]], such as the belief in [[fatalism]] (''ḳadar''), which reoccurs in Islamic theology regarding the metaphysical debates on the [[attributes of God in Islam]], [[Predestination in Islam|predestination]], and [[Free will in theology|human free-will]].<ref name="Schmidtke 2016">{{•}} {{cite book |last=Treiger |first=Alexander |year=2016 |origyear=2014 |chapter=Part I: Islamic Theologies during the Formative and the Early Middle period – Origins of Kalām |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |editor-last=Schmidtke |editor-first=Sabine |editor-link=Sabine Schmidtke |title=The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology |location=[[Oxford]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=27–43 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.001 |isbn=9780199696703 |lccn=2016935488 |access-date=2021-10-19 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051704/https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |url-status=live }}<br />{{•}} {{cite book |last=Abrahamov |first=Binyamin |year=2016 |origyear=2014 |chapter=Part I: Islamic Theologies during the Formative and the Early Middle period – Scripturalist and Traditionalist Theology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA264 |editor-last=Schmidtke |editor-first=Sabine |editor-link=Sabine Schmidtke |title=The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology |location=[[Oxford]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=264–279 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.025 |isbn=9780199696703 |lccn=2016935488 |access-date=2021-10-19 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051704/https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA264 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Adang |author-first=Camilla |year=2001 |title=Belief and Unbelief: choice or destiny? |editor-last=McAuliffe |editor-first=Jane Dammen |editor-link=Jane Dammen McAuliffe |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān]] |volume=I |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |doi=10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_00025 |isbn=978-90-04-14743-0}}</ref>
 
The original schism between [[Kharijites]], [[Sunni Islam|Sunnīs]], and [[Shia Islam|Shīʿas]] among [[Muslims]] was disputeda dispute over the [[Succession to Muhammad|political and religious succession]] to the guidanceleadership of the ''[[Ummah|Muslim community]]'' (''Ummah''Muslim community) after the death of the [[Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]].<ref name="Izutsu 2006"/> From their essentially political position, the Kharijites developed extreme doctrines that set them apart from both mainstream Sunnī and Shīʿa Muslims.<ref name="Izutsu 2006"/> Shīʿas believe [[Ali|ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib]] is the true successor to Muhammad, while Sunnīs consider [[Abu Bakr]] to hold that position. The Kharijites broke away from both the Shīʿas and the Sunnīs during the [[First Fitna]] (the first Islamic Civil War);<ref name="Izutsu 2006"/> they were particularly noted for adopting a radical approach to ''[[Takfir|takfīr]]'' (excommunication), whereby they declared both Sunnī and Shīʿa Muslims to be either [[Kafir|infidels]] (''kuffār'') or [[Munafiq|false Muslims]] (''munāfiḳūn''), and therefore deemed them [[Capital punishment in Islam|worthy of death]] for their perceived [[Apostasy in Islam|apostasy]] (''ridda'').<ref name="Izutsu 2006"/>
 
''[[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''. However, thisThis term has taken a significant technical usage in [[History of Islam|Muslim history]] and theology, denoting those matters over which Muslims hold conviction. The term is usually translated as "theology". Such traditions are divisions orthogonal to [[Islamic schools and branches|sectarian divisions within Islam]], and a [[Mu'tazilism|Muʿtazilite]] may, for example, belong to the [[Jaʽfari jurisprudence|Jaʿfari]], [[Zaydism|Zaydī]], or even [[Hanafi|Ḥanafī]] [[Madhhab|schools of Islamic jurisprudence]].
 
In the [[history of Islam]], one of the earliest systematic schools of Islamic theology to develop were the [[Mu'tazilism|Muʿtazila]] in the mid-8th century CE.<ref name="Schmidtke 2016"/><ref name="Peters 1980">{{cite journal |author-last=Peters |author-first=J. R. T. M. |date=1980 |title=La théologie musulmane et l'étude du langage |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/hel_0750-8069_1980_num_2_1_1049 |journal=Histoire. Épistémologie. Langage |location=[[Paris]] |publisher=Société d'histoire et d'Épistémologie des Sciences du Langage |volume=2 |issue=1: ''Éléments d'Histoire de la tradition linguistique arabe'' |language=fr |doi=10.3406/hel.1980.1049 |doi-access=free |pages=9–19 |issn=1638-1580 |access-date=2021-11-30 |archive-date=2021-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130233309/https://www.persee.fr/doc/hel_0750-8069_1980_num_2_1_1049 |url-status=live }}</ref> Muʿtazilite theologians emphasized the use of [[reason]] and [[Rationalism|rational thought]], positing that the injunctions of [[God in Islam|God]] are accessible through rational thought and inquiry, and affirmed that [[Quranic createdness|the Quran was created]] (''makhlūq'') rather than co-eternal with God, which would develop into one of the most contentious questions in the history of Islamic theology.<ref name="Schmidtke 2016"/><ref name="Peters 1980"/>
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 toof deducededucing moral truths by reasoning.<ref name="Thiele 2016"/> This position was opposed by the [[Maturidism|Māturīdī school]];<ref name="Ulrich 2016">{{cite book |author-last=Rudolph |author-first=Ulrich |year=2016 |origyear=2014 |chapter=Part I: Islamic Theologies during the Formative and the Early Middle period – Ḥanafī Theological Tradition and Māturīdism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA285 |editor-last=Schmidtke |editor-first=Sabine |editor-link=Sabine Schmidtke |title=The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology |location=[[Oxford]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=285–290 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.023 |isbn=9780199696703 |lccn=2016935488}}</ref> according to its founder, the 10th-century Muslim scholar and theologian [[Abu Mansur al-Maturidi|Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī]], human reason is supposed to acknowledge the existence of a [[creator deity]] (''bāriʾ'') solely [[Rationalism|based on rational thought]] and independently from divine revelation.<ref name="Ulrich 2016"/> He shared this conviction with his teacher and predecessor [[Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man|Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān]] (8th century CE), whereas al-Ashʿarī never held such a view.<ref name="Ulrich 2016"/>
 
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>]]
 
"Most Sunnis have adopted" the Ash‘ariyya school of theology,<ref name="Islam p. 696">“Ash‘ariyya” by W. Montgomery Watt in ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', vol. I, p. 696.</ref> but the similar Mātūrīd’iyyah school also has Sunni adherents.<ref name=heer-lecture-8-10>{{cite web |title=A LECTURE ON ISLAMIC THEOLOGY |last1=Heer |first1=Nicholas |url=http://faculty.washington.edu/heer/theology-sep.pdf |website=University of Washington Faculty |date=n.d. |pages=9–10 |access-date=13 August 2021 |archive-date=26 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026085748/http://faculty.washington.edu/heer/theology-sep.pdf |url-status=live }}</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 ===
{{main|Traditionalist Theology (Islam)Athari}}
{{Further|Ahmad ibn Hanbal|Dawud al-Zahiri|Al-Tabari|Al-Tahawi|Ibn Taymiyya}}
 
Atharism ({{lang-langx|ar|أثري}}; ''textualism'') is a movement of Islamic scholars who reject rationalistic Islamic theology (''[[kalam]]'') in favor of strict textualism in interpreting the [[Quran]].<ref name=Halverson-36q>{{cite book|last=Halverson|first=Jeffry R.|title=Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood, Ash'arism, and Political Sunnism|date=2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781137473578|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IYzGAAAAQBAJ&q=Athari+&pg=PP1|quote=The Atharis can thus be described as a school or movement led by a contingent of scholars (''ulama''), typically [[Hanbalite]] or eventhe [[Shafi'iteHanbalites]], which retained influence, or at the very least a shared sentiment and conception of piety, well beyond the limited range of Hanbalite communities. This body of scholars continued to reject theology in favor of strict textualism well after Ash'arism had infiltrated the Sunni schools of law. It is for these reasons that we must delineate the existence of a distinctly traditionalist, anti-theological movement, which defies strict identification with any particular ''madhhab'', and therefore cannot be described as Hanbalite.|access-date=2020-10-28|archive-date=2022-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051705/https://books.google.com/books?id=IYzGAAAAQBAJ&q=Athari+&pg=PP1|url-status=live}}</ref> The name is derived from the Arabic word ''{{transliteration|ar|ALA|athar}}'', literally meaning "remnant" and also referring to a "narrative".<ref>{{cite book|first=Aaron|last=Spevack|title=The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri|pages=169|publisher=State University of New York Press|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4384-5370-5|quote=The term Atharis is derived from athar, which implied transmitted content (rather than rationally derived content).}}</ref> TheirIt has a minority position amongst the scholars and their disciples are called the ''Athariyya'', or Atharis.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}
 
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 [[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]]".{{citation needed|date= August 2024}} In theory, [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]] has stated this means rejecting any attribution of God with creatures; such as the doctrine of the rationalists (Mu'tazilah). thus, Ahmad rejecting the notion of Mu'tazilah that Qur'an was a creation, and instead stated Qur'an is a ''shifat'' (attribute) of God.<ref name="Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Malaysia" /><ref name="Ushul Shunnah; Walid" /><ref name="Creed Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Williams" /><ref name="Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Shaukat Ali" />
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 [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]] would have been opposed to [[Anthropomorphism and corporealism in Islam|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'tilitil]] 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.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}
 
=== ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ===
{{main|Ilm al-Kalam}}
''[[Ilm al-Kalam|ʿIlm al-Kalām]]'' ({{lang-langx|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>
 
''[[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|Al-Jubba'i|Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad|Abu'l Husayn alAl-Jahiz|Al-BasriZamakhshari}}
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]]. 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>
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> ThoughOne Muʿtazilisof laterthe reliedmost onnotable [[Logicepisode inof IslamicMu'tazila philosophy|logic]]conflict andwith differentthe aspectsAtharist oforthodoxy [[earlywas Islamicduring philosophy]],the [[ancientreign Greekof philosophy]],Abbasid andcaliph [[Indian philosophyAl-Ma'mun]], where the basicslong feud of IslamMu'tazila isQuran theircreationism startingdoctrine pointopposed andby ultimatethe referenceatharist doctrine that Quran as ''shifat'' (attribution) of God which championed by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of [[Hanbali school]].<ref name=rw"Ushul Shunnah; Walid">{{cite book |authorauthor1=Walzer,Walid ibn Muhammad Nabih ibn Sayf an-Nashr R.|yeareditor1-last=1967ibn ‘Ied al-Abbasi |chaptereditor1-first=EarlyMuhammad Islamic Philosophy|title=Theأصول Cambridgeالسنة History|trans-title=Principle of LaterSunnah Greek|year=1996 and|publisher=Maktaba EarlyIbn MedievalTaymiyyah Philosophy|editorpage=A.50 H|url=https://almoqtabas.com/ar/publications/view/26800509189058926 Armstrong|editoraccess-linkdate=A9 August 2024 |language=Ar |quote=Footnote 13}}</ref><ref name="Creed Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Williams">{{cite journal |author1=W. HWilliams|title=Aspects of the Creed of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse |year=2002 |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=441–463 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743802003021 Armstrong|publisher=Cambridge University Press |locationdoi=UK10.1017/S0020743802003021 |isbnlanguage=0-521-04054-X|En}}</ref><ref name="Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Shaukat Ali">{{harvidcite book |Walzerauthor1=Shaukat Ali |1967}}title=Millenarian and Messianic Tendencies in Islamic History |year=1993 |publisher=Publishers United |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CATYAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 August 2024 |language=En}}</ref><ref name=wc"Ahmad ibn Hanbal; Malaysia">{{cite book |authortitle=Craig,Pemikiran W.Islam di Malaysia: sejarah dan aliran L.|year=20001997 |titlepublisher=TheGema KalamInsani Cosmological|isbn=9795614304 Argument|publisherpage=Wipf137 &|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRtOVSAYGLAC Stock|access-date=9 August 2024 Publishers|locationlanguage=USAMs}}</ref> Ahmad was recorded engaged in long debates against the leading Mu'tazilite and [[qadi]] of caliphate, [[Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad]] regarding the said matter about the nature of Quran.<ref>{{cite book |isbnauthor1=1Musthafa Said Al-57910khin |editor1-438last=Zirzis |translator=Muhammad Misbah |editor1-Xfirst=Achmad |reftitle={{harvidSejarah Ushul Fikih |Craigtrans-title=History of Ushul Fiqih |2000}}year=2014 |publisher=Pustaka Al-Kautsar |location=East Jakarta, Id |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wHeDwAAQBAJ |access-date=9 August 2024 |language=Id}}</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|Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani|Fakhr al-Din al-Razi|Ibn Khaldun|Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani}}
 
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]] in the 9th–10th century(874–936), who developed the school of thought founded by [[Ibn Kullab]] a century earlier.<ref name="Nasr 2006">{{cite book |author-last=Nasr |author-first=Seyyed Hossein |author-link=Seyyed Hossein Nasr |year=2006 |chapter=Part 3: Islamic Philosophy in History – Dimensions of the Islamic Intellectual Tradition: Kalām, Philosophy, and Spirituality |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0ZFkdlCFnYC&pg=PA124 |title=[[Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy|Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy]] |location=[[Albany, New York]] |publisher=[[SUNY Press]] |pages=124–126 |isbn=9780791468005 |lccn=2005023943 |access-date=2022-09-04 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118051711/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0ZFkdlCFnYC&pg=PA124 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Islamica 2015">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Javad Anvari |author-first=Mohammad |year=2015 |title=al-Ashʿarī |translator-last=Melvin-Koushki |translator-first=Matthew |editor1-last=Madelung |editor1-first=Wilferd |editor2-last=Daftary |editor2-first=Farhad |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Islamica |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |doi=10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_0300 |issn=1875-9823}}</ref><ref name="Thiele 2016">{{cite book |author-last=Thiele |author-first=Jan |year=2016 |origyear=2014 |chapter=Part I: Islamic Theologies during the Formative and the Early Middle period – Between Cordoba and Nīsābūr: The Emergence and Consolidation of Ashʿarism (Fourth–Fifth/Tenth–Eleventh Century) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA225 |editor-last=Schmidtke |editor-first=Sabine |editor-link=Sabine Schmidtke |title=The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology |location=[[Oxford]] and [[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=225–241 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.45 |isbn=9780199696703 |lccn=2016935488 |access-date=2022-09-04 |archive-date=2022-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118052138/https://books.google.com/books?id=70wnDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA225 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
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 ==
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[[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> This is the position adopted by the Ash'ari school, which holds that God's omnipotence is absolute and perfect over all creation.
 
== 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. {{Further|'Amr ibn 'Ubayd|Al-Jubba'i|Abd al-Jabbâr al-Hamadhânî|Ibrahim an-Nazzam|Al-Jahiz}}
 
[[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'' ({{lang-langx|ar|محكمة}}). They are mainly divided into two major sects called as [[Kharijites]] and [[Ibadis]].
 
=== 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. They also believed that [[Ali ibn Abi Talib]] committed a grave sin when he agreed on the arbitration with [[MuawiyahMu'awiya I|Muʿāwiyah]]. In the [[Battle of Siffin]], Ali acceded to Muawiyah's suggestion to stop the fighting and resort to negotiation. A large portion of Ali's troops (who later became the first Kharijites) refused to concede to that agreement, and they considered that Ali had breached a [[Qur'an]]ic verse which states that ''The decision is only for Allah'' (Qur'an 6:57), which the Kharijites interpreted to mean that the outcome of a conflict can only be decided in battle (by God) and not in negotiations (by human beings).
 
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 [[MuawiyahMu'awiya I|Muʿāwiyah]]) as [[Kafir|Kuffār]] (disbelievers), having breached the rules of the Qur'an. They believed that all participants in the [[Battle of Jamal]], including [[Talha ibn Ubayd Allah|Talha]], [[Zubayr ibn al-Awwam|Zubayr]] (both being companions of [[Muhammad]]) and [[Aisha]] had committed a ''Kabira'' (major sin in Islam).<ref name="ReferenceA">[[Abul Ala Maududi]], "Khilafat-o-Malookeyat" in Urdu language, (Caliphate and kingship), p 214.</ref>
 
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]] ({{lang-langx|ar|{{big|المرجئة}}}}) was an early Islamic school whose followers are known in English as "Murjites" or "Murji'ites" ({{lang|ar|{{big|المرجئون}}}}). The Murji'ah emerged as a theological school in response to the [[Kharijites]] on the early question about the relationship between sin and apostasy ''(rida).'' The Murji'ah believed that sin did not affect a person's beliefs (''[[Iman (concept)|iman]]'') but rather their piety (''[[taqwa]]''). Therefore, they advocated the idea of "delayed judgement", (''irjaa)''. The Murji'ah maintain that anyone who proclaims the bare minimum of faith must be considered a Muslim, and sin alone cannot cause someone to become a disbeliever ''([[kafir]]).'' The Murjite opinion would eventually dominate that of the [[Kharijites]] and become the mainstream opinion in [[Sunni Islam]]. The later schools of Sunni theology adopted their stance while form more developed theological schools and concepts.
 
== 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, [[İstanbulIstanbul]], 2011. This is the name of the trainer of [[Muhammad ibn Ismail|Muhammad bin Ismā‘īl as-ṣaghīr]] ibn [[Isma'il ibn Jafar|Jā’far]]. He had established the principles of the [[Batiniyyah|Bāṭen’iyyah]] [[Madh'hab]], later.</ref> and his son [[Abd Allah ibn Maymun al-Qaddah|ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn]]<ref name="MAYMŪN">{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abdallah-b-maymun-al-qaddah-legendary-founder-of-the-qarmatian-ismaili-doctrine|title=ʿAbdallāh B. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ|access-date=22 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516235417/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abdallah-b-maymun-al-qaddah-legendary-founder-of-the-qarmatian-ismaili-doctrine|archive-date=16 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> for the [[esoteric interpretation of the Quran]].<ref name="BĀṬENĪYA">{{cite web|last=Halm|first=H|title=Bāṭenīya|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bateniya|publisher=Encyclopedia Iranica|access-date=4 August 2014|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211648/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bateniya|url-status=live}}</ref> The members of Bāṭen’iyyah may belong to either the [[Isma'ilism|Ismāʿīlī]] or [[Twelver Shi’ism|Twelver]] denominations of Shīʿa Islam.
 
==== 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 a part of [[Ja'fari jurisprudence]] [[fiqh]], even though they can be considered as members of different [[Tariqa]] of [[Shia Islam]] all looks like sub-classes of [[Twelver]]. Their conviction includes "[[Batiniyya]]-[[Hurufism]]" and "[[Sevener]]-[[Qarmatians]]-[[Ismailism]]" sentiments.<ref name="BĀṬENĪYA"/><ref>[[Yaşar Nuri Öztürk|Öztürk, Yaşar Nuri]], ''[[Anal Haq|En-el Hak]] [[Rebellion|İsyan]]ı (The [[Anal Haq]] [[Rebellion]]) – [[Mansur Al-Hallaj|Hallâc-ı Mansûr]] ([[Gallows|Darağacı]]nda [[Mi'raj|Miraç]] – [[Mi'raj|Miraç]] on [[Gallows]]),'' Vol 1 and 2, Yeni Boyut, 2011.</ref>
* 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}}
 
====== ''ʿAqīdah'' of Alevi-Islam Dīn Services ======
{{main|ʿAqīdah|Dīn|Buyruks}}
{{cquote|bgcolor=#F0FFF0|What's Alevism, what's the understanding of [[Islam]] in Alevism? The answers to these questions, instead of the opposite of what's known by many people is that the birthplace of ''Alevism'' was never in ''[[Anatolia]].'' This is an example of great ignorance, that is, to tell that the ''Alevism'' was emerged in ''Anatolia.'' Searching the source of ''Alevism'' in Anatolia arises from unawareness. Because there was not even one single Muslim or [[Turkic peoples|Turk]] in Anatolia before a specific date. The roots of ''Alevism'' stem from [[Turkestan]] – [[Central Asia]]. Islam was brought to Anatolia by Turks in 10th and 11th centuries by a result of migration for a period of 100 – 150 years. Before this event took place, there were no Muslim and Turks in Anatolia. Anatolia was then entirely [[Christians|Christian]]. We Turks brought Islam to Anatolia from Turkestan. – Professor İzzettin Doğan, The President of Alevi-Islam Religion Services.<ref>[http://www.aleviislamdinhizmetleri.com/basinda_biz.asp?id=5 Alevi-Islam Religious Services – The message of İzzettin Doğan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081230/http://www.aleviislamdinhizmetleri.com/basinda_biz.asp?id=5 |date=2016-03-04 }}, Zafer Mah. [[Ahmet Yesevi]] Cad. No: 290, Yenibosna / [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]].</ref>}}
 
*Some of their members (or sub-groups) claim that [[God in Islam|God]] takes abode in the bodies of the human-beings (''ḥulūl''), believe in [[metempsychosis]] (''tanāsukh''), and consider [[Sharia|Islamic law]] to be not obligatory (''ibāḥa''), similar to [[antinomianism]].<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Edinburgh University Press| isbn = 978-0-7486-1888-0| last = Halm| first = Heinz| title = Shi'ism| date = 2004-07-21| page = [https://archive.org/details/shiism0000halm/page/154 154]| url = https://archive.org/details/shiism0000halm/page/154}}</ref>
*Some of the Alevis criticizes the course of [[Islam]] as it is being practiced overwhelmingly by more than 99% of [[Sunni]] and [[Shia]] population.
*They believe that major additions had been implemented during the time of [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyads]], and easily refuse some basic principles on the grounds that they believe it contradicts with the holy book of [[Islam]], namely the [[Qur'an]].
*Regular daily [[salat]] and [[fasting]] in the holy month of [[Ramadan]] are officially not accepted by some members of ''[[Alevism]]''.
*Some of their sub-groups like ''[[ishikism|Ishikists]]'' and ''[[Bektashi]]s,'' who portrayed themselves as ''[[Alevi]]s,'' neither comprehend the essence of the regular daily [[salat]] ''(prayers)'' and [[fasting]] in the holy month of [[Ramadan]] that is frequently accentuated at many times in [[Quran]], nor admits that these principles constitute the ineluctable foundations of the [[Dīn]] of [[Islam]] as they had been laid down by [[God in Islam|Allah]] and they had been practised in an uninterruptible manner during the period of [[Prophet Muhammad]].
{{Twelvers|collapsed=1}}
 
===== 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)'']], a [[murid]] of [[Malamatiyya|Malāmatī]]-[[Qalandariyya|Qalāndārī]] [[Sheikh]] [[Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar]], who introduced the [[Ahmad Yasavi]]'s [[doctrine]] of ''"[[Four Doors|Four Doors and Forty Stending]]"'' into his [[tariqah]].]]
 
====== 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. Many Muslims criticise the Shia for certain beliefs and practices, including practices such as the [[Mourning of Muharram]] (''Mätam''). They are the largest Shia school of thought (93%), predominant in [[Azerbaijan]], [[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Lebanon]], and [[Bahrain]] and have a significant population in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, [[Kuwait]] and the [[Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia|Eastern province of Saudi Arabia]]. The Twelver Shīʿas are followers of ''either the [[Ja'fari jurisprudence|Jaf'ari]] or [[Batiniyyah]] [[madh'hab]]s''.
 
==== 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 incorporates [[Gnostic]], [[neo-Platonic]], Islamic, Christian and other elements and has, therefore, been described as [[syncretistic]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-Alawi Community of Cilicia |last=Prochazka-Eisl |first=Gisela |author2=Prochazka, Stephan |year=2010 |isbn=978-3447061780 |page=81|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag }}</ref><ref name= Friedman67>{{cite book |title=The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria |last=Friedman |first=Yaron |year=2010 |isbn=978-9004178922 |page=67|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> Their theology is based on a divine triad,<ref name=globsec/><ref name= Princeton>{{cite book |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought |editor=Böwering, Gerhard |display-editors=etal |year=2012 |isbn=978-0691134840 |page=29|publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref><ref name= Friedman77>{{cite book |title=The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria |last=Friedman |first=Yaron |year=2010 |isbn=978-9004178922 |page=77|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> or trinity, which is the core of Alawite belief.<ref name= Plain>{{cite book |title=The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-'Alawi Community of Cilicia |last=Prochazka-Eisl |first=Gisela |author2=Prochazka, Stephan |year=2010 |isbn=978-3447061780 |page=82|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag }}</ref> The triad comprises three [[Emanationism|emanation]]s of the one God: the supreme aspect or entity called the "Essence"<ref name= Plain/> or the "Meaning"<ref name= Friedman77/> (both being translations of ''ma'na''), together with two lesser [[Emanationism|emanation]]s known as his "Name" (''ism''), or "Veil" (''hijab''), and his "Gate" (''[[Bab (Shia Islam)|bab]]'').<ref name= Princeton/><ref name= Friedman77/><ref name= Plain/><ref name= Peters>{{cite book |title=The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume II |last=Peters |first=F.E.|year=2009 |isbn=978-1400825714 |page=321|publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref> These emanations have manifested themselves in different human forms over several cycles in history, the last cycle of which was as [[Ali]] (the Essence/Meaning), [[Muhammad]] (the Name) and [[Salman the Persian]] (the Gate).<ref name= Princeton/><ref name= Plain/><ref name= Peters/><ref>{{cite book |title=The Nuṣayrī-ʻAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History, and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria |last=Friedman |first=Yaron |year=2010 |isbn=978-9004178922 |pages=80, 93–94|publisher=BRILL }}</ref> Alawite belief is summarised in the formula: "I turn to the Gate; I bow before the Name; I adore the Meaning".<ref name=globsec/> The claim that Alawites believe Ali is a deity has been contested by some scholars as a misrepresentation on the basis that Ali is, in fact, considered an "essence or form", not a human being, by which believers can "grasp God".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18084964|title=The 'secretive sect' in charge of Syria|publisher=BBC|date=17 May 2012|access-date=25 December 2012|archive-date=24 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211630/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18084964|url-status=live}}</ref> Alawites also hold that they were originally stars or divine lights that were cast out of heaven through disobedience and must undergo repeated [[reincarnation]] (or [[metempsychosis]]<ref name= Plain/>) before returning to heaven.<ref name=globsec/><ref name= Peters/> They can be reincarnated as Christians or others through sin and as animals if they become infidels.<ref name=globsec/><ref name=cs>[http://countrystudies.us/syria/32.htm Alawis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203947/http://countrystudies.us/syria/32.htm |date=2016-03-04 }}, Countrystudies.us, U.S. Library of Congress.</ref>
 
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> Additionally, there has been a recent movement to unite Alawism and the other branches of Twelver Islam through educational exchange programs in Syria and [[Qom]].<ref name="CoFR">{{cite web |url=http://www.cfr.org/iran/syria-iran-mideast-conflict/p11122 |title=Syria, Iran, and the Mideast Conflict |last=Esther |first=Pan |date=18 July 2006|work=Backgrounder|publisher=[[Council on Foreign Relations]]|access-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523091927/http://www.cfr.org/iran/syria-iran-mideast-conflict/p11122 |archive-date= 23 May 2011 |url-status= live}}</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 "[[Shirk (Islam)|Shirk]]" ''([[polytheism]])'' by the [[Sunni]] [[Ulama]], but they have a [[Batin (Islam)|bāṭenī]]<ref name="Bāṭenī"/> taʾwīl ''(inner explanation)'' in [[Qizilbash]]ism.
{{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 personalitiespersonages like [[Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah]], [[Abu Muslim]], [[Sunpadh]], [[Ishaq al-Turk]], [[Al-Muqanna]], [[Babak Khorramdin]], [[Mazyar|Maziar]] and [[Ismail I]] had become the subject of [[God incarnate]]s.
{{further|Ghulāt|List of extinct Shia sects|Kaysanites Shia|Khurramites}}
 
== Ahmadiyya ==
{{Ahmadiyya|collapsed=1}}
The [[Ahmadis]]' beliefs are more aligned with the Sunni tradition, such as [[The Five Pillars of Islam]] and [[Iman (concept)#The Six articles of Islamic faith|The Six articles of Islamic Faith]]. Likewise, Ahmadis accept the [[Qur'an]] as their holy text, face the [[Kaaba]] during prayer, accept the authority of [[Hadith]]s (reported sayings of and stories about Muhammad) and practice the [[Sunnah]] (traditions) of Muhammad.<ref>Annemarie Schimmel ''et al.'': ''Der Islam III. Volksfrömmigkeit, Islamische Kultur, Zeitgenössische Strömungen.'' [[Kohlhammer Verlag]], Stuttgart 1990, S. 418–420</ref> However, Many Muslims consider Ahmadis as [[bid‘ah|heretics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/sects/ahmadiyya.htm|title = Ahmadiyya Islam – Beliefs History Practices|access-date = 19 April 2015|publisher = ReligionFacts|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140727061122/http://religionfacts.com/islam/sects/ahmadiyya.htm|archive-date = 27 July 2014|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8711026.stm|title = Who are the Ahmadi?|date = 28 May 2010|access-date = 19 April 2015|work = [[BBC News]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100530013220/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8711026.stm|archive-date=30 May 2010 |url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = When Muslims are not Muslims: the Ahmadiyya community and the discourse on heresy in Indonesia|last = Burhani|first = Ahmad Najib|publisher = [[University of California]]|year = 2013|isbn = 9781303424861|location = Santa Barbara, California|url = https://alexandria.ucsb.edu/lib/ark:/48907/f3707zhx|access-date = 2019-01-20|archive-date = 2019-11-28|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191128213850/https://alexandria.ucsb.edu/lib/ark:/48907/f3707zhx|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/heretical-ahmadiyya-sect-raises-muslim-hackles/article1-752846.aspx|title = 'Heretical' Ahmadiyya sect raises Muslim hackles|last = Haq|first = Zia|date = 2 October 2011|access-date = 19 April 2015|newspaper = [[Hindustan Times]]|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150419082837/http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/heretical-ahmadiyya-sect-raises|archive-date = 2015-04-19}}</ref>
 
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&region=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&region=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==
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== 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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