VASIL B. ʽATTAH AND THE BIRTH OF MUʽTAZILITE ‘FIRST GROUNDS’
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2018-14-1-93-112
Abstract
The present article is devoted to the reconstruction and analysis of the religious teachings of Wasil b. ‘Аttаʼ — w ell-known Muslim apologist and theologian, the founder of Mu’tazilte school of kalam (7th — 8 th centuries). On the basis of the remained fragments the author draws a conclusion about relative independence of Wasil’s concept, which, though did not become a rotary point in modern to it thought, became a basis for “mature” kalam’ theories. The conclusion about rationalistic paradigmatics of theology of Wasil as the methodological beginning of Mu’tazilte’ exegesis, theology and natural philosophy is separately drawn.
About the Author
F. O. Nofal
Lugansk State University named after V. Dahl
Ukraine
Ukraine
Faris O. Nofal - postgraduate student.
20a, Molodezhniy kvartal, Lugansk, 91034
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Nofal F.O. VASIL B. ʽATTAH AND THE BIRTH OF MUʽTAZILITE ‘FIRST GROUNDS’. Islam in the modern world. 2018;14(1):93-112. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2018-14-1-93-112
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