Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

An indispensable work for those who wish to read al-Ashʿarī is Richard J. McCarthy (ed.), The Theology of al-Ashʿari (1953), containing the texts of two of his theological treatises with their English translation. W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Philosophy and Theology, 2nd ed. (1985), places al-Ashʿarī in the chronological development of Muslim thought.

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First paragraph modernization. Feb 14, 2024
Invalidated site: LookLex Encyclopaedia - Biography of Abu al-Hassan al-Ash'ari. Apr 09, 2014
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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