Maqalat al-Islamiyyin wa-Ikhtilaf al-Musallin

By Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

مقالات الإسلاميين واختلاف المصلين

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

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

"Maqalat al-Islamiyyin" (The Doctrines of the Muslims), a book by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari which sets out the views of the Islamic sects and the doctrines of the theologians. 1

The end of the first part

In the edition read here, the first part ends with the account of what the people of the hadith and the People of the Sunna say (pages 345–352 of the printed text). Al-Ash'ari then says that he holds to it. He then mentions the views of the followers of Abdullah ibn Sa'id al-Qattan, Zuhayr al-Athari and Abu Mu'adh al-Tumni. 1

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Authored by
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

People and things also explored

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari· The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· Ghayba (occultation)· Ilm al-kalam (speculative theology)· The Imamate· Infallibility of the Imams (Twelver Shi'a)· The doctrine of the awaited Mahdi (al-mahdiyya)· Raj'a (the return to the world)

Sources

  1. Maqalat al-Islamiyyin, al-Ash'ari (ed. Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid)
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Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

A Sunni theologian to whom the Ash'ari school is attributed, author of Maqalat al-Islamiyyin in which he sets out the position of the hadith scholars and Ahl al-Sunna and says he holds it; the edition of the book calls him the shaykh of Ahl al-Sunna wa'l-Jama'a.