The Muʿtazila on Covenantal Theology: A Study of Individualist Approaches

Abstract This article examines how three leading exegetes of the Muʿtazilite school tradition – ʿAbd al-Jabbār (d. 415/1025), Jishumī (d. 494/1101), and Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144) – conceptualized the Qurʾānic idea of covenant in divergent ways. It also illustrates how they related the idea of covena...

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Main Author: Jaffer, Tariq (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Oriens
Year: 2021, Volume: 49, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 131-171
Further subjects:B Jishumī
B Salvation
B Covenant
B Zamakhsharī
B ʿAbd al-Jabbār
B Predestination
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