ibn Hanbal's persecution under previous Caliphs), Mu'tazilite doctrine was repudiated and Mu'tazilite professors were persecuted in the Abbasid Caliphate;...

scholar and theologian. In his early days, he was a Mu'tazilite scholar, but then rejected the Mu'tazilite doctrine. Afterwards, he became a Shia scholar;...

following Al-Shafi'i's views. This resulted in the odd combination of being Mu'tazilite in creed but Sunni in jurisprudence, and consequently most of the Mu'tazila...

teachings in five "pillars" (uṣūl), which echoed and revised those of the Mu'tazilite doctrine: In his views on God, the Christian influence is evident, as...

(Chief Magistrate) of the Buyid dynasty and the last great scholar of the Mu'tazilite school of Islamic theology, and a reported follower of the Shafi‘i school...

were brought captive with him. Like his father, al-Wathiq was an ardent Mu'tazilite—the sources agree that he was strongly influenced by the chief qadi,...

The Aghlabids were from the tribe of Banu Tamim and adhered to the Mu'tazilite rationalist doctrine within Hanafi Sunni Islam, which they imposed as...

Muslim theologian and jurist. He is considered to be the founder of the Muʿtazilite school of Kalam. Born around the year 699 in the Arabian Peninsula, he...

هانئ النظام) (c. 775 – c. 845) was an Arab Mu'tazilite theologian and poet. He was a nephew of the Mu'tazilite theologian Abu al-Hudhayl al-'Allaf, and...

however it dies with him. For Shia, the status of ijmā is ambiguous. The Mu'tazilite sect does not consider consensus to be a valid source of law, primarily...