MU’TEZİLE EKOLÜ VE AKLIN BELİRLEYİCİLİĞİ

Authors : Osman Aydınlı

Pages : 145-161

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Publication Date : 2009-11-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The distinctive feature of the Mu‘tazilite school is to have laid down its fun damental principles as al-usfil al-khamsa (five fundamentals) and concen trated on theological and philosophical issues. Within the Mutazila, due to their different approaches to the imamate and politics, there emerged two main streams, the schools of Baghdad and Basra. The Mu’tazilite thinkers are most often defined as rationalist, individualist, liberal and eccentric figures. The members of this school attached great importance to reaso ning in understanding and interpreting religious texts as well as the whole Islamic heritage. In the history of Islamic thought, the Mu’tazilite School is characterized by its particular method in understanding and interpreting Islamic precepts. They took up an evident rationalist stand by giving the precedence to reasoning both in providing solutions to the intellectual challenges and in understan ding and interpreting the Islamic scriptures alike. In this context, this article attempts to point out the rationalist dimension of the Mu’tazilite tradition.
Keywords : Mu‘tazilite, sects, ‘al-usul al-khamsah, ‘Abbaside period, Bayt al-Hikmat, Abfi al-Huzayl al-‘Allaf, Nazzam, Cahiz.