The Maturidi School

The Maturidi School : New,
"From Abu Hanifa to Al-Kawthari"
[A5] Paperback - 238 pages,
by Gibril Fouad al-Haddad,
Published by Beacon Publications.
 

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Description :

"The Maturidi School : From Imam Abu Hanifa to Imam al-Kawthari." This work is a comparative translation and survey of the bullet points of the most important Maturidi authorities and their doctrinal textbooks with a bio-bibliography of Maturidi scholarship in descending order of antiquity.

The doctrinal creed of the largest denomination of Muslims that came to be known as ‘The Adherents to the Sunna and the Congregation’ found staunch defenders in the school of Abu' Mansur al-Maturidi (d.333/945), who codified the theology of ‘the Greatest Leader’ (al-Imam al-Azam) Abu' Hanifa.
 

This work is a comparative translation and survey of the bullet points of the most important Maturidi authorities and their doctrinal textbooks with a bio-bibliography of Maturidi scholarship in descending order of antiquity.
 

It highlights their resolutions (taqrirat) as the defining parameters of Sunnism and can serve both as an introductory synopsis of the great themes of Maturidism and as a tool for the study of the school’s theology from its early founders to our time.

 

About the author :

Lebanese-born Islamic scholar, hadith expert, author and translator of classical Islamic texts, Gibril Fouad Haddad was featured in the inaugural list of 500 Most influential Muslims and has been called “one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West”.
 

A staunch defender of the traditional Islamic schools of law, he holds ijazas from over 150 scholars across the Muslim world and was a visiting fellow (2013-2015) then senior assistant professor (2015-2018) at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Center for Islamic Studies, University Brunei Darussalam, where he lives.

Also see Imam al-Maturidi's The Book of Monotheism : New,
God & the Universe, A Manual of Sunni Theology,

More Islamic Belief : Aqa'id.