Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Maturidi al-Samarqandi, imam of the mutakallimun and eponym of the Maturidi school of doctrine; his nisba refers to Maturid, a quarter of Samarqand. He died in 333 AH ¹.

Al-Zirikli calls al-Maturidi the imam of the scholars of kalam, named after Maturid, a quarter of Samarqand, lists among his works the Kitab al-Tawhid and Awham al-Mu'tazila, and dates his death to 333 AH ¹. He also has a notice in Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat al-A'yan ².

• The al-A'lam entry is read from OCR of the scanned volume covering the letter mim (scan p. 164); the exact wording of the two book titles should be checked against the page image before the bibliography is expanded.