ابن كلاب : حياته و آراؤه الكلامية

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Abu Mohammed; Abdullah Bin Said Al- Kattan Al- Tamimi Al- Bassri known as Ibn Kullab who died in 240 A.

H.

is considered one of the leading minds of Islamic theological thinking.

He is also considered the founder of the scholastic theology which has been attributed to him.

Such school of thought had its impact upon Islamic theology.

Studying theological views is an important field since it is very difficult and requires great effort.

The research at hand is divided into two chapters.

The first chapter studies his life، his age، his name، his bloodline، his upbringing، his books، his jurisprudential school، his creed، why al- ashaira were interested in his output، why his enemies lied to him as well as refuting their allegations، his efforts to defend his views against those who disagreed with him، his position، establishing his intellectual school، the extended influence of his thinking and his date of death، may Allah have mercy on him.

As for the second chapter، it tackles his theological views to which the researcher has paved the ground through referring some earlier scientists who were interested in those views and their narrations such as Al- Ashari، Al- Baghdadi and Ibn Taymia; in short.

After that the researcher has handled the issues in detail according to the usual order of creed issues; divinity، prophethood، auditory then the general issues.

The title of every issue has been considered a clue to Ibn Kullab's school of thought since the title sums up Ibn Kullab's views.

The researcher has covered around 67 issues in this research.