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
appointedBy Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād
birthDate c. 935
birthPlace Asadābād
birthRegion near Hamadān
centuryActive 10th century
11th century
deathDate 1025
deathPlace Rayy
denomination Muʿtazila
ethnicOrigin Persian
fullName ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadānī
honorificTitle al-Qāḍī
influenced Islamic rationalist thought
later Muʿtazilite theologians
influencedBy Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī
Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī
intellectualTradition Basran Muʿtazila
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
positionHeld chief judge of Rayy
regionActive Iran
Iraq
religion Islam
schoolOfLaw Shāfiʿī
linked to: Shafi'i school
studentOf Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī
teacherOf Abū Rashīd al-Nīsābūrī
Ibn Mattawayh
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
Tathbīt dalāʾil al-nubuwwa
linked to: Ithbat al-nubuwwat

al-Mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa-l-ʿadl
al-Muḥīṭ bi-l-taklīf
al-ʿUmad fī uṣūl al-fiqh

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Muʿtazilite theology historicalFigureAssociated al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār
al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār nameInArabic القاضي عبد الجبار
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al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār fullName ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadānī
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al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār honorificTitle al-Qāḍī
linked to: al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār