At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
Sects and schoolsTakfir and its critics
Summary
Ibn al-Jawzi, in al-Muntazam, reports that in 408 AH the caliph al-Qadir Billah called on the Hanafi jurists among the Mu'tazilites to repent. They showed their return and disavowed Mu'tazilism. 1
The conditions
The caliph forbade them to speak, teach or debate on Mu'tazilism, Rafdh, and opinions contrary to Islam, and took their signed statements to that effect. He threatened them with punishment if they went against it. 1
Its effect in Khurasan
The author says that Mahmud, lord of Ghazna, complied with this and followed it in Khurasan and elsewhere. In the account, he killed Mu'tazilites, Rafidis, Isma'ilis, Qaramita, Jahmis and Mushabbiha, crucified and burned some of them, ordered them cursed from the pulpits, and exiled the people of innovation from their lands. Ibn al-Jawzi says this became "a sunna in Islam." This is the author's description, and no other sources are added here to assess it. 1
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Qadir bi-llah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir· Mahmud of Ghazna
People and things also explored
Al-Qadir's order of repentance for the Mu'tazila in Baghdad and Khurasan· The Baratha Mosque Affair in 420· Mahmud of Ghazna Enters Rayy, 420· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The reading of the Qadiri Creed in the Dar al-Khilafa· The death of al-Qadir and the accession of al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah, 422· The Baghdad Attestation on Fatimid Lineage· Riot at the funeral of Bint Abi Nuh and the plunder of the Dar al-Rum church
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.284
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Qadir's recantation decree against the innovators (408 AH)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/qadir-istitaba-408/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.