Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari dies in Baghdad, having left the Mu'tazila to defend revealed doctrine with the tools of rational theology; the Ash'ari school he founds becomes, with the Maturidi school, the dominant theology of Sunni Islam.
The Event
- Date
- 936 (approximate)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Baghdad; today Baghdad, Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Ash'ari
- Key figures
- Al-Ash'ari
- Key texts
- Al-Ibana, Kitab al-Luma
Primary Sources
- Al-Ibana
Secondary Sources
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
- Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0226; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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