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Motazilla and Elm-ul-kalaam A Research Overiew

Abstract

Before we study the beginning and evolution of elm-ulkalaam and the study of an important group of Islamic thought in the second century of hijri, Mo’tazilla, whose ideas and thoughts resonated in the coming centuries, it seems important to analyze the causes and reasons that initiated discussions on kalaam in Islamic society. Factors, motives or challenges in an Islamic society, whose response came to be a gradual evolution of elm-ul-kalaam, come from two ways, internal and external. The internal challenge, in fact, was revealed when Hazrat Amir Mu'awiyah (RA) asked for the qisas of Hazrat Uthman (RA), which resulted in the battle of siff in between Hazrat Ali (RA) and Hazrat Amir Mu'awiyah (RA). The problem emerged intensively, when a new violent group born in the form of Khawarij, as a result of the war of siffin. This was group of the rural Arabs who fought from the side of Hazrat Ali (RA) in the battle, but later on, upon the issue of arbitration, became rebellious against Hazrat Ali (RA), and HazratAli (RA) and Hazrat Amir Mu'awiyah (RA), both of them, were declared infidels and sinners, hence expelled from Islam.

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