Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
أبو منصور الماتريدي
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
Born853 CE (238 AH)[1]
Samarkand, Samanid Empire (modern-day Uzbekistan)
Died944 CE (333 AH; aged 90–91)[1]
Samarkand, Samanid Empire (modern-day Uzebekistan)
Resting placeChokardiza cemetery, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age (mid Samanid)
RegionSamanid Empire
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedFounder of Maturidism
Notable idea(s)Maturidism
Notable work(s)
Muslim leader
Influenced
    • All Maturidis
    • Virtually all Hanafis
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Tomb-shrine of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi in Samarkand
Venerated inSunni Islam[2]
Major shrineTomb of Imam al-Maturidi, Samarkand

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (Arabic: أبو منصور الماتريدي, romanizedʾAbū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; 853–944) was an Islamic scholar and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of theology in Sunni Islam. A follower of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, al-Maturidi was a leading figure of the Islamic Golden Age.

Born in Maturid from where he took his nisba, al-Maturidi's teachers include Abu Bakr al-Juzjani and Abu Nasr al-Ayadi. Known as Shaykh al-Islam by contemporaries, al-Maturidi's works include Tafsir al-Maturidi, a classic exegesis of the Qur'an, and Kitab al-Tawhid based on Islamic monotheism. Al-Maturidi's school remains amongst the three main school of theology alongside Ash'arism and Atharism.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b 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.

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