He explains that he wants to do for his two poems what the
Mu'tazili exegete al-Zamakhshari did for the Quran in the twelfth century: give a complete account of poetics throughout a literary text.
He covers a life in politics, a
Mu'tazili polymath, a patron and social networker, a letter writer and his letters, sultaniyyat: governmental and administrative letters, letters of friendship: ikhwaniyyat, and Ibn 'Abbad as epistolographer.
Due to his scrupulousness he declined his inheritance of about seventy thousand dirhams that his father had left him because of the latter's
Mu'tazili leanings.
334/945) who was a former
Mu'tazili. He is one of the original founders of Sunni Kalam in opposition to
Mu'tazili Kalam.
Jurists writing in the two major strands of Islamic theology--Sunni traditionalism and Shi'i or
Mu'tazili rationalism--came to this same conclusion, albeit by different means.
Rational theology in interfaith communication; Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's
Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid age.
The later patronized the Shi'a community, endorsed the
Mu'tazili philosophy as the official theology, and even nominated the eighth Shi'a Imam, Ali al-Riza (d.