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Salafī-Ashʻarī Polemics of the 3rd & 4th Islamic Centuries
Ist Teil von
The Muslim world (Hartford), 2016-07, Vol.106 (3), p.433-447
Ort / Verlag
Hartford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley-Blackwell Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
While Sunnism is the largest sect of Islam, Sunnism itself is divided into many strands. The two main strands of Sunnism for the last few centuries are the Atharī (or Salafī) strand, and the Ashʻarī strand. This papers seeks to examine the earliest recorded controversies that signal this intra‐Sunnī divide. While each of these two groups has historically attempted to claim true Sunnī ‘orthodoxy’ by denying the legitimacy, and at times even the early existence, of the other, it will be shown that the genesis of this intra‐Sunnī divide dates back to the first century of Sunnism itself, viz., the 3rd AH/8th CE centuries, and that there are specific historic incidents that indicate theological tensions within the nascent Sunnī movement that would later be manifested in the two streams of Ashʻarism and Salafism. Hence, it can be argued that Sunnism was never truly unified to begin with, and that these incidents demonstrate theological tensions that existed from its very origins.