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Abu l-Hassani l-Ash'ari
Arabic:
'abū l-hassani l-'ashcari
(Basra 873- Baghdad 935) Muslim theolgian, founder of the Ash'ari school of theology.
Ash'ari was a student with the Mu'tazili theologian al-Jubba'i until he was about 40. Then he came to disagree with al-Jubba'i on question of God's predetermination.
Ash'ari broke with his teacher, and started to produce a large number of texts where he fought the teachings of Mu'tazilism, like in the 'al-ibana can 'usūli d-diyāna, "Clarification on the origin of religion", as well as unbiased scientific works on Muslim groups, like in the maqālātu l-'islāmiyīn "Islamic articles".
Ash'ari is considered as the founder of Islamic scholasticism, as he used dialectics in order to combat Mu'tazilism, and his techniques and theories were accepted by the conservative learned of his time. Ash'ari's teaching became the dominant orientation among the Sunni schools.
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