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Encyclopedia > Wasil ibn Ata
<region> scholar
Medieval era
Name: Wasil ibn Ata
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Wasil ibn Ata (700–748) (Arabic: واصل بن عطاء‎) was a Muslim theologian, and by some accounts is considered the founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought. Mabad ibn Kalid al-Juhani (d. ... // Events Saint Adamnan convinces 51 kings to adopt Cáin Adomnáin defining the relationship between women and priests. ... Events January - An earthquake strikes the Middle East from northern Egypt to northwestern Mesopotamia, destroying many remnants of Byzantine culture. ... The Arabic language ( ), or simply Arabic ( ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... Mutazili (Arabic &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1593;&#1578;&#1586;&#1604;&#1577;) is an extinct theological school of thought within Islam. ...


Born around the year 700 in the Arabian Peninsula, he initially studied under Abu Hashim Abd Allah b. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the son of the famous 4th Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib. Later he would travel to Basra in Iraq to study under Hasan al-Basri (a Tabi‘in). In Basra he began to develop the ideologies that would lead to the Mutazilite school. These stemmed from conflicts that many scholars had in resolving theology and politics. His main contribution to the Mutazilite school was in planting the seeds for the formation of its doctrine. The Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية, or جزيرة العرب) is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia consisting mainly of desert. ... Ali ibn Abu Talib (Arabic: علي بن أبي طالب translit: ‘AlÄ« ibn Abu Ṭālib Persian: علی پسر ابو طالب) ‎ (599 – 661) is an early Islamic leader. ... Location of Basra Basra (Arabic: ‎ ; BGN: Al BaÅŸrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of c. ... Hasan al-Basri (حسن البسری) [Abu Said al-Hasan ibn Abi-l-Hasan Yasar al-Basri], (642 - 728 or 737), Arab theologian, was born at Medina. ... The Tābi‘īn (Arabic: ‎ Followers) are the generation of Muslims who were born after the death of Muhammad but who were contemporary of the Sahaba Companions. As such they played an important part in the development of Islamic thought and philosophy, and in the political development of the early...


Wasil ibn Ata died in 748 in the Arabian Peninsula.


He married the sister of Amr Ibn Ubayd [citation needed] Amr Ibn Ubayd ibn Bāb (d. ...


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A History of Muslim Philosophy (9157 words)
Wasil was a pupil of abu Hashim `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al‑ Hanafiy­yah, but in the matter of Imamate, as in some other matters, he opposed his master.
Ahmad ibn Hayat who lived in the company of al‑Nazzam held that there are two deities: one, the creator and eternal deity, and the other, the created one which is Jesus Christ son of Mary.
`Amr ibn Bahr al‑Jahiz, a contemporary of Mu'ammar, was a pupil of al-­Nazzam and was himself one of the Imams of the Mu'tazilites.
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