Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

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Abu Mansur al-Maturidi was a 10th-century Sunni Muslim theologian whose rationalist approach to creed founded the influential Maturidi school of Islamic theology.

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instanceOf Islamic scholar
Muslim theologian
Sunni Muslim theologian
founder of a school of Islamic theology
affiliation Sunni orthodoxy
associatedMadhhab Hanafi
linked to: Hanafi school
birthPlace Maturid near Samarkand
Samanid Empire NERFINISHED
Samarkand region
linked to: Samarkand Region
centuryActive 10th century
contemporaries early Ashʿari theologians
deathPlace Samarkand
denomination Sunni Islam
era Islamic Golden Age
field Islamic creed (aqidah)
Qur’anic commentary
fullName Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Maturidi al-Samarqandi
influenceOn Central Asian Islamic thought
Ottoman Sunni theology
later Hanafi theologians
jurisprudenceSchool Hanafi fiqh
linked to: Hanafi school
knownFor defending Sunni orthodoxy against Karramites
defending Sunni orthodoxy against Muʿtazilites
defending Sunni orthodoxy against various heterodox groups
founding the Maturidi school of theology
rationalist approach to Sunni creed
systematizing Hanafi theological thought
mainInterest Islamic creed (aqidah)
Islamic theology
Qur’anic exegesis
kalam
rational theology
majorWork Kitab al-Tawhid
linked to: Kitāb al-Tawḥīd

Ta’wilat al-Qur’an
linked to: Asās al-taʾwīl
name Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
region Central Asia
Transoxiana
religion Islam
schoolOfTheologyFounded Maturidi school
linked to: Maturidi
schoolSpreadTo Central Asia
Ottoman lands
linked to: Ottoman Empire

South Asia
Transoxiana
theologicalOrientation rationalist Sunni kalam
theologicalSchool Maturidi
traditionWithinSunniIslam Maturidism
linked to: Māturīdism
viewOnAttributesOfGod affirmed divine attributes without anthropomorphism
rejected corporealism regarding God
viewOnFaith defined faith primarily as inner assent (tasdiq)
viewOnFreeWill affirmed human responsibility under divine omnipotence
viewOnQuran distinguished between eternal divine speech and created expressions
held the Qur’an to be uncreated in meaning
viewOnReason affirmed an important role for human reason in knowing God

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Maturidi basedOnTeachingsOf Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Maturidi namedAfter Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Māturīdism foundedBy Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī
linked to: Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Māturīdism namedAfter Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī
linked to: Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Māturīdism keyFigure Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī
linked to: Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi name Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi fullName Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Maturidi al-Samarqandi
linked to: Abu Mansur al-Maturidi