Mutazilites

Ms. NOMANI: Well, I disagree because, you know, I believe that what we've inherited in the 21st century is exactly what happened in the 10th century, where rational thinking, you know, characterized by this group of people called the Mutazilites, were basically extinguished by the Ash'arites.

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The Mutazilites were the great opponents of the Sifátians.

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Musaylimah and Karmat had left traces of their handiwork: the Mutazilites (separatists or secessors) actively propagated their doctrine of a created and temporal Koran.

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Sunnís follow the teaching of Al-Ash'arí, whilst the Shí'ahs incline to that of the Mutazilites.

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The Mutazilites expelled from power in Baghdád, still flourished at Basra where one day the following incident occurred.

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The Mutazilites took up the opposite side of this great question and said: --

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I have shown in the preceding chapter how the earlier scholastics, or the Mutazilites, as they are called, were finally crushed by the orthodox party.

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The Mutazilites, or Seceders, were once an influential body.

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The Mutazilites maintained that there would be no intercession for Muslims guilty of great sins, and adduced in favour of their opinion the verse: "Fear ye the day when soul shall not satisfy for soul at all, nor shall any intercession be accepted from them, nor shall any ransom be taken, neither shall they be helped."

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Imám Sháfa'í and the Mutazilites say that a man must first attain to the

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