المذهب الأشعري بالمغرب الإسلامي : واقعه و أثره

Abstract EN

In spite of geography, the Islamic Maghreb was never far from the intellectual dynamism of the Islamic Mashriq (Orient).

Because of the fifth pillar of Islam, Hadj, capable Muslims should travel to Mecca in Arabia for Pilgrimage, they usually cross Egypt where they visit the famous University of Al Azhar, and stay for a while, and most of them visit Jerusalem, Damascus and Baghdad: most prosper cities of the flourish Islamic civilization.

By contacts and presence to high level of Islamic education there they Maghribians scholars, comeback convinced and influenced by new movements in politics, low, theology, sciences… The Ash'ari School was founded by the Arab theologian Abu al-Hasan al-Ashʿari (d.

936 / AH 324), in Baghdad under the Abbasside Caliphate than it became the dominant theological school within Sunni Islam.

After the 4th century of Hijra, Ash'arism reached the Maghreb from Libya to the Atlantic Ocean including Iberia and Muslims of Black Africa.

This brief research is an attempt to study the circumstances and the conditions that made the task of few scholars possible and so easy to convince all the inhabitants of the western part of the Islamic World embracing the Ash'arism for long time.