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3 - The Muʿtazilī: al-Jāḥiẓ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2021

Nebil Husayn
Nebil Husayn
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University of Miami
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Chapter 3 examines the views of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869), a Muʿtazilī belletrist who lived in a period in which anti-ʿAlid sentiment still ran high in various parts of the Muslim world. His Risālat al-ʿUthmāniyya examines the views of one of the factions introduced in the previous chapter and constitutes a seminal text for understanding this anti-ʿAlid current in early Islam. Al-Jāḥiẓ’s treatise triggered a number of rebuttals from authors who condemned him as an anti-ʿAlid.

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Muʿtazilapro-ʿAlidsdoctrinesJāḥiẓRisālat al-ʿUthmāniyyaAbu Bakrfaḍāʾiltafḍīl, Khawārij
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Opposing the Imam
The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature
 , pp. 65 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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