Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf

…most important Muʿtazilī theologians were Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf (died c. 841) and al-Naẓẓām (died 846) in Basra and Bishr ibn al-Muʿtamir (died 825) in Baghdad. It was al-Ashʿarī (died 935 or 936), a student of the Muʿtazilī al-Jubbāʾī, who broke the force of the movement by refuting its teachings with…

under the great Muʿtazilite theologian Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf but soon broke away from him to found a school of his own. It seems to have been Naẓẓām who began the struggle against the intellectual influences of Asiatic Hellenism, which the Muʿtazilites represented, a struggle that Muslim thinkers were to continue…