Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, chief judge of Rayy and the Mu'tazila's great systematizer, dies; his twenty-volume al-Mughni preserves Mu'tazila theology in its fullest form, much of it recovered from manuscripts in Yemeni libraries a thousand years later.
The Event
- Date
- 1025 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Rayy; today Rey, Iran
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Mu'tazila
- Key figures
- Abd al-Jabbar
- Key texts
- Al-Mughni
Primary Sources
- Al-Mughni
Secondary Sources
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0228; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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