Mu'tazila and Mu'tazilites
03 Oct 1994 12:02Ties to pre-Islamic philosophy; science; democratic politics; Sufism; feminism. Use by modernizers in the contemporary Muslim world as ``acceptable ancestors''. (I got on to this because of Fatima Mernissi, specifically the parts of Islam and Democracy devoted to the Mu'tazilites. Unfortunately it looks like the serious work on this is not in English...)
- To read:
- Alnoor Dahani, The Physical Theory of Kalam: Atoms, Space and Void in Basrian Mu'tazili Cosmology
- George Hourani, Islamic Rationalism
- Peters, God's Created Speech: a Study in the Speculative Theology of the Mu'tazili Qadi l-gudat Abul-Hasan 'Abd al-Jabbar bn Ahmad al-Hamadani
- Sophia Vasalou, Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics
