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Al-Ghazali
male, deceased - Al-Ghazali contributed significantly to the development of a systematic view of Sufism and its integration and acceptance in mainstream Islam. He... More
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Wasil Ibn Ata
male, deceased - Wasil ibn Ata was a Muslim theologian, and by some accounts is considered the founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought. Born around the... More
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Ali Al-Masudi
male, deceased - Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Masudi, was an Arab historian, known as the “Herodotus of the Arabs.” He was the first Arab to combine hist... More
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Bashar Ibn Burd
male, deceased - Bashār ibn Burd nicknamed "al-Mura'ath" meaning the wattled, was a poet in the late Umayyad and the early Abbasid periods. Bashar was of Persian o... More
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Al-Zamakhshari
male, deceased - al-Zamakhshari (1074-1143 or 1075-1144) was a medieval Iranian Hanafi scholar with Mu'tazilite theological influences.
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Abu’l Husayn Al-Basri
male - Abu'l-Husayn al-Basri: a Mu'tazilite faqih who died in 478 AH/1085 CE. He wrote "al-Mu'tamid fi usul l-fiqh", a major source of influence in the... More
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Zayd Ibn Ali
male, deceased - Zayd ibn Ali (also spelled Zaid) (695-740 C.E.) He was given the title "Zayd the Martyr" ("Zayd ash-Shahid") by his sympathizers. He was the... More
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Harun Nasution
male - Harun Nasution is an Indonesian scholar who describes himself as a neo-Mutazilite.
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