al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār

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Al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār was a prominent 10th–11th century Islamic theologian and jurist, renowned as one of the most influential systematizers and defenders of Muʿtazilite rationalist theology.

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instanceOf Islamic theologian
Muslim jurist
Muʿtazilite theologian
person
affiliation Buyid court in Rayy NERFINISHED
appointedBy Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād NERFINISHED
birthDate c. 935
birthPlace Asadābād NERFINISHED
birthRegion near Hamadān
centuryActive 10th century
11th century
deathDate 1025
deathPlace Rayy NERFINISHED
denomination Muʿtazila NERFINISHED
ethnicOrigin Persian
fullName ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadānī NERFINISHED
honorificTitle al-Qāḍī NERFINISHED
influenced Islamic rationalist thought
later Muʿtazilite theologians
influencedBy Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī NERFINISHED
Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī NERFINISHED
intellectualTradition Basran Muʿtazila NERFINISHED
knownFor defending rationalist theology in Islam
extensive works in kalām
systematizing Muʿtazilite theology
language Arabic
mainInterest Islamic jurisprudence
Islamic theology
kalām
uṣūl al-fiqh
nameInArabic القاضي عبد الجبار NERFINISHED
positionHeld chief judge of Rayy
regionActive Iran NERFINISHED
Iraq NERFINISHED
religion Islam
schoolOfLaw Shāfiʿī NERFINISHED
studentOf Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī NERFINISHED
teacherOf Abū Rashīd al-Nīsābūrī NERFINISHED
Ibn Mattawayh NERFINISHED
theologicalPrinciple affirmation of human free will
createdness of the Qurʾān
emphasis on divine justice (ʿadl)
necessity of God acting according to justice and wisdom
rational knowability of good and evil
rejection of predestination in a fatalistic sense
workAuthored Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa NERFINISHED
Tathbīt dalāʾil al-nubuwwa NERFINISHED
al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa-l-ʿadl NERFINISHED
al-Muḥīṭ bi-l-taklīf NERFINISHED
al-ʿUmad fī uṣūl al-fiqh NERFINISHED

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Muʿtazilite theology historicalFigureAssociated al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār