This PowerPoint slides are one of the 14 series of slide shows. It is based on the book 'The History of Islamic Thought' written by Dr, Mayeser Peerzada and Dr. P.S. Masood Jamali.

1. The Mutazilah and The Ashariee
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2. Imaam Al-Hasan al- Basri
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3. Al-Hasan al–Basri (642-728
CE)
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4. Definition
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5. Five Principles Doctrine
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6. Tawheed
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7. Divine Justice
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8. Al-Wad wa al-Waid
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9. Manzilah bayna al-Manzilatayn
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10. Al-Amr bi al-Maruf wa al-Nahy
an al Munkar
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11. The earlier Mutazilah –considered Abu Bakr
as the best, but the majority of the later
Mutazilah –considered Ali as superior
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14. Imaam Abul Hasan al-Ashariee
Abul Hasan Alee bin Ismail ibn Abi Bakr Ishaaq
From the lineage of Abu Musa al-Ashari
The first forty years he was a disciple of a Mutazilah
teacher Abu Ali al-Jubbai.
The teacher was unable to resolve his query hence he
abandoned the teacher and joined another teacher by
the name Abdullah bin Saeed bin al-Kullabee
The died on the creed of the pious predecessor.
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15. Qualification
 Abul Hasan al-Ashari was a postmaster of
debates and polemics. He had an aptitude
and facility, which he used with
consummate skill in contending for the
religion.
 No one was better qualified than he for the
task as in his knowledge of secular
sciences like logic and dialectics
 He excelled all the Mutazilite doctors and
could rebute their objections like a teacher
answering the questions of his students.
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16. Work
 The commentary on the Qur’an written by al-
Ashari ran into thirty volumes.
 Al-Ashari is said to have written some 250 to
300 works; a largenumber of which traverses
the main positions of the Mutazilites or other
non-conformist sectsand heretical creeds.
 One of the voluminousbooks written by al-
Ashari is ‘Kitab-ul-fusul,comprising twelve
volumes, which confutes the doctrines of a
number of sects including so-called
trationalists, atheists and naturalists as well as
other creeds like those of the Hindus,
Jews,Christians and Magians
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17.  Currently the Ashari sect are those who
are following the Kullabee school of
thought
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18.  Jazakallahukhair
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