Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
	Tomb-shrine of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi in Samarkand
Venerated in	Sunni Islam
Major shrine	Tomb of Imam al-Maturidi, Samarkand

Imam
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
أَبُو مَنْصُور ٱلْمَاتُرِيدِيّ
Title	Shaykh al-Islam ('Shaykh of Islam'); Imam al-Huda ('Imam of Guidance'); Imam Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a ('Imam of the People of the Prophetic Way and Community');
Personal
Born	853 CE (238 AH); Samarkand, Samanid Empire (modern-day Uzbekistan)
Died	944 CE (333 AH; aged 90–91); Samarkand, Samanid Empire (modern-day Uzebekistan)
Resting place	Chokardiza cemetery, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic Golden Age (mid Samanid)
Region	Samanid Empire
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Founder of Maturidism
Notable idea(s)	Maturidism
Notable work(s)	Kitab al-Tawhid; Ta'wilat Ahl al-Sunna; Al-Jadal fi Usul al-Fiqh; Kitab al-Maqalat; Kitab Bayan Awham al-Mu'tazila;
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Abu Hanifa; Abu Bakr al-Samarqandi; ;
	Influenced All Maturidis; Virtually all Hanafis; ;

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi^[a] (Persian: أَبُو مَنْصُور ٱلْمَاتُرِيدِيّ, romanized: Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; 853–944) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist of the Hanafi school, exegete, reformer, and speculative theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Maturidi school of Islamic theology,^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] which became the dominant Sunni school of Islamic theology in Central Asia,^[2] and later enjoyed a preeminent status as the theological school of choice for both the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire.^[2]

He was from a place called Māturīd or Māturīt in Samarqand (today Uzbekistan), and was known during his lifetime as Shaykh al-Islām and Imām al-Hudā ("Leader of Right Guidance").^[2] He was one of the two foremost Imams of the Sunni Islam in his time, along with Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in matters of theological inquiry.^[7] In contrast al-Ashʿarī, who was a Shāfiʿī jurist, al-Māturīdī adhered to the eponymous school of jurisprudence founded by Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān, and to his creed (ʿaqīdah) as transmitted and elaborated by the Ḥanafī Muslim theologians of Balkh and Transoxania.^[2] It was this theological doctrine which al-Māturīdī codified, systematized, and used to refute not only the opinions of the Muʿtazilites, the Karramites, and other heterodox groups, but also non-Islamic theologies such as those of Chalcedonian Christianity, Miaphysitism, Manichaeanism, Marcionism, and Bardaisanism.^[8]

^ ^a ^b Nasir, Sahilun A. "The Epistemology of Kalam of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi." Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 43.2 (2005): 349-365.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h MacDonald, D. B. (2012) [1936]. "Māturīdī". In Houtsma, M. Th.; Arnold, T. W.; Basset, R.; Hartmann, R. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition. Vol. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_4608. ISBN 9789004082656.
^ Rudolph, Ulrich (2016) [2014]. "Part I: Islamic Theologies during the Formative and the Early Middle period – Ḥanafī Theological Tradition and Māturīdism". In Schmidtke, Sabine (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 280–296. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.023. ISBN 9780199696703. LCCN 2016935488.
^ Alpyağıl, Recep (28 November 2016). "Māturīdī". Oxford Bibliographies – Islamic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0232. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
^ Rudolph, Ulrich (2015). "An Outline of al-Māturīdī's Teachings". Al-Māturīdī and the Development of Sunnī Theology in Samarqand. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol. 100. Translated by Adem, Rodrigo. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 231–312. doi:10.1163/9789004261846_010. ISBN 978-90-04-26184-6. ISSN 0929-2403. LCCN 2014034960.
^ Henderson, John B. (1998). "The Making of Orthodoxies". The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. pp. 55–58. ISBN 978-0-7914-3760-5.
^ Gibril Fouad Haddad (2015). The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams and Hadith Masters. Zulfiqar Ayub. p. 141.
^ G. Vajda, Le témoignage d’al-Māturīdī sur la doctrine des Manichéens, des Daysanites et des Marcionites, in Arabica, xii [1966], 1–38, 113–28

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[birthdeath-1] Nasir, Sahilun A. "The Epistemology of Kalam of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi." Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 43.2 (2005): 349-365.

[ReferenceA-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h MacDonald, D. B. (2012) [1936]. "Māturīdī". In Houtsma, M. Th.; Arnold, T. W.; Basset, R.; Hartmann, R. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition. Vol. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_4608. ISBN 9789004082656.

[Rudolph_2016-4] Rudolph, Ulrich (2016) [2014]. "Part I: Islamic Theologies during the Formative and the Early Middle period – Ḥanafī Theological Tradition and Māturīdism". In Schmidtke, Sabine (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 280–296. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.023. ISBN 9780199696703. LCCN 2016935488.

[Alpyagil_2016-5] Alpyağıl, Recep (28 November 2016). "Māturīdī". Oxford Bibliographies – Islamic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0232. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2021.

[Rudolph_2015-6] Rudolph, Ulrich (2015). "An Outline of al-Māturīdī's Teachings". Al-Māturīdī and the Development of Sunnī Theology in Samarqand. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol. 100. Translated by Adem, Rodrigo. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 231–312. doi:10.1163/9789004261846_010. ISBN 978-90-04-26184-6. ISSN 0929-2403. LCCN 2014034960.

[Henderson_1998-7] Henderson, John B. (1998). "The Making of Orthodoxies". The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. pp. 55–58. ISBN 978-0-7914-3760-5.

[Gibril_Fouad_Haddad_2015_141-8] Gibril Fouad Haddad (2015). The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams and Hadith Masters. Zulfiqar Ayub. p. 141.

[9] G. Vajda, Le témoignage d’al-Māturīdī sur la doctrine des Manichéens, des Daysanites et des Marcionites, in Arabica, xii [1966], 1–38, 113–28

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Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
أَبُو مَنْصُور ٱلْمَاتُرِيدِيّ
Title	Shaykh al-Islam ('Shaykh of Islam') Imam al-Huda ('Imam of Guidance') Imam Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a ('Imam of the People of the Prophetic Way and Community')
Personal
Born	853 CE (238 AH)^[1] Samarkand, Samanid Empire (modern-day Uzbekistan)
Died	944 CE (333 AH; aged 90–91)^[1] Samarkand, Samanid Empire (modern-day Uzebekistan)
Resting place	Chokardiza cemetery, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic Golden Age (mid Samanid)
Region	Samanid Empire
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Founder of Maturidism
Notable idea(s)	Maturidism
Notable work(s)	Kitab al-Tawhid Ta'wilat Ahl al-Sunna Al-Jadal fi Usul al-Fiqh Kitab al-Maqalat Kitab Bayan Awham al-Mu'tazila
Muslim leader
Influenced by Abu Hanifa^[2] Abu Bakr al-Samarqandi
Influenced All Maturidis Virtually all Hanafis

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Tomb-shrine of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi in Samarkand
Venerated in	Sunni Islam^[2]
Major shrine	Tomb of Imam al-Maturidi, Samarkand