This volume examines the theological doctrine of al-Maturidi (d.944 CE) by describing its principal characteristics and situating it within the history of Sunni kalam.
Al-M tur d (d. 944 CE), the prominent Hanafi scholar from Samarqand, succeeded in formulating a theological doctrine which is widely accepted in Sunni Islam to this day. The present volume which is a
This first in a projected four-volume series examining the history of philosophy in Islam from the beginning to the present, considers thinkers and schools of thought from the eight century AD to t