One member of this sect received a nickname meaning "God's neighbor" and wrote a text which contains some of the few extant examples of the Kwaresmian language; that member is Al-Zamakhshari.
One member of this sect received a nickname meaning "God's neighbor" and wrote a text which contains some of the few extant examples of the Kwaresmian language; that member is Al-Zamakhshari. One member of this sect presaged Darwinian evolution by writing that animals participate in a "struggle for existence". The leader of this sect stated that those who committed grave sin are in a state between belief and unbelief, which is his doctrine of indeterminacy. This sect, whose members include al-Jahiz and whose name means "Those who withdraw", believed the Qu'ran to be created rather than co-eternal with Allah, which put them at odds with the (*) Ash'ari sect. Amhad bin Hanbal was flogged for refusing to follow this sect's doctrines under Caliph al-Ma'mun. This sect founded by a student of Hasan of Basra named Wasil ibn Ata believed that human reason was the final arbiter of morality and of revelation. For 10 points, name this rationalist school of Islamic theology popular in the 8th to 10th centuries in Baghdad.
One member of this sect received a nickname meaning "God's neighbor" and wrote a text which contains some of the few extant examples of the Kwaresmian language; that member is Al-Zamakhshari.
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