Asharite kalam
E658340
Asharite kalam is a major Sunni Islamic theological school that emphasizes divine omnipotence, occasionalism, and the primacy of revelation over rationalist philosophy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ash'ari kalam | 1 |
| Asharite kalam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7348218 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asharite kalam Context triple: [Tahafut al-Falasifa, intellectualTradition, Asharite kalam]
-
A.
Alkham
Alkham is a rural village and civil parish in Kent, England, situated in a valley between Dover and Folkestone.
-
B.
Asrar-nama
Asrar-nama is a seminal Persian Sufi poetic work by Farid ud-Din Attar that explores mystical themes and the inner journey of the soul toward divine truth.
-
C.
Al-Qalam
Al-Qalam is the transliterated Arabic title of the 68th chapter of the Qur’an, known for its emphasis on moral character and the story of the People of the Garden.
-
D.
Al Mandaq
Al Mandaq is a town in southwestern Saudi Arabia known for its mountainous terrain and cool climate within the Al Bahah region.
-
E.
Al-Kisāʾī
Al-Kisāʾī was a prominent early Arabic grammarian and Qurʾān reciter, renowned as one of the leading scholars of the Kufan linguistic tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asharite kalam Target entity description: Asharite kalam is a major Sunni Islamic theological school that emphasizes divine omnipotence, occasionalism, and the primacy of revelation over rationalist philosophy.
-
A.
Alkham
Alkham is a rural village and civil parish in Kent, England, situated in a valley between Dover and Folkestone.
-
B.
Asrar-nama
Asrar-nama is a seminal Persian Sufi poetic work by Farid ud-Din Attar that explores mystical themes and the inner journey of the soul toward divine truth.
-
C.
Al-Qalam
Al-Qalam is the transliterated Arabic title of the 68th chapter of the Qur’an, known for its emphasis on moral character and the story of the People of the Garden.
-
D.
Al Mandaq
Al Mandaq is a town in southwestern Saudi Arabia known for its mountainous terrain and cool climate within the Al Bahah region.
-
E.
Al-Kisāʾī
Al-Kisāʾī was a prominent early Arabic grammarian and Qurʾān reciter, renowned as one of the leading scholars of the Kufan linguistic tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Islamic theological school ⓘ |
| affirms | divine attributes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Shafiʿi madhhab
ⓘ
linked to:
Shafi'i school
some Maliki scholars ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Hanbali traditionalism
ⓘ
linked to:
Hanbali school
Maturidi kalam ⓘ
linked to:
Maturidi
|
| emergedInCentury | 10th century ⓘ |
| emergedInRegion |
Basra
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
absolute will of God
ⓘ
divine omnipotence ⓘ divine transcendence ⓘ occasionalism ⓘ primacy of revelation ⓘ uncreatedness of the Quran ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Abu al-Hasan al-Ashari
ⓘ
linked to:
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
|
| hasNotableTheologian |
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
ⓘ
al-Baqillani ⓘ
linked to:
Al-Baqillani
al-Ghazali ⓘ
linked to:
al‑Ghazali
al-Juwayni ⓘ
linked to:
Al-Juwayni
|
| historicalStatus | one of the main schools of Sunni creed (aqida) ⓘ |
| influenced |
Maturidi kalam (through debate and contrast)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maturidi
Shafiʿi legal tradition ⓘ Sunni orthodoxy ⓘ
linked to:
Sunni theology
|
| languageOfDiscourse | Arabic ⓘ |
| method | reconciliation of reason and revelation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Abu al-Hasan al-Ashari
ⓘ
linked to:
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
|
| opposes |
Muʿtazilite rationalism
ⓘ
philosophical rationalism ⓘ |
| prioritizes | revelation over unaided reason ⓘ |
| rejects |
anthropomorphic interpretation of divine attributes
ⓘ
denial of divine attributes by Muʿtazilites ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| teaches |
God creates all human acts
ⓘ
God is the only true cause ⓘ acquisition theory of human acts (kasb) ⓘ affirmation of divine attributes without asking how (bila kayf) ⓘ beatific vision of God in the hereafter ⓘ humans acquire but do not create their actions ⓘ no necessary causal power in created things ⓘ occasionalist view of causality ⓘ |
| uses |
dialectical theology
ⓘ
rational argumentation in defense of revelation ⓘ |
| viewOnCausality | events occur by direct divine creation ⓘ |
| viewOnFreeWill | compatibilist view via kasb ⓘ |
| viewOnQuran |
Quran is uncreated and eternal
ⓘ
linked to:
Quran
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Asharite kalam Description of subject: Asharite kalam is a major Sunni Islamic theological school that emphasizes divine omnipotence, occasionalism, and the primacy of revelation over rationalist philosophy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Asharite kalam