Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Abū Ḥudhayfah • Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Ghazzāl
Born	c.700 • Arabia
Died	748 • Arabia
Subjects Of Study	Muʿtazilah

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī

Muslim theologian

al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

Muslim scholar

Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī

Persian scholar

al-Maʾmūn

ʿAbbāsid caliph

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal

Muslim scholar

Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī

Muslim theologian

al-Muḥāsibī

Muslim theologian

Ibn Ḥazm

Spanish Muslim scholar

al-Ghazālī

Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic

Ibn ʿAqīl

Muslim theologian

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

Muslim theologian

Ibn al-Jawzī

Muslim educator

Ibrāhīm al-Naẓẓām

Muslim theologian

Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad al-Māturīdī

Muslim theologian

ad-Damīrī

Muslim theologian

al-Jurjānī

Iranian theologian

Ibn Taymiyyah

Muslim theologian

Muḥammad ʿAbduh

Egyptian scholar and jurist

Abul Kalam Azad

Indian theologian

Tariq Ramadan

Swiss theologian and scholar