Ebû Ca’fer Muhammed b. Abdullah el-İskâfî’nin Hayatı, Şahsiyeti ve Kelâmî Görüşleri
Abû Ja’fer Muhammâd İbn Abdallâh al-İskâfî’s Life, Personality and Opinions about Kalâm

Summary/Abstract: One of the early era Mu’tezile theologians, Abû Ja’fer Muhammad bin Abdallâh al-İskâfî (death.240/854) has supported Islamic belief principals rather with rational principals by using his knowledge and wisdom about kalâm. In accordance with Mu’tezile’s general method, he has tried to explain things like tawhid, person and adjective relation, Koran’s people, justice and goodness and evil with a perspective that is far from comparison and prioritizes exclusion. With an aim to rationally prove Allah’s existence, he has supported that the whole universe is a hadith. He has also tried to solve the social problem of leadership in his era by regarding that it is appropriate that a virtuous imam could become a leader while there is a more virtuous one and by this, he has tried to solve the problem between the Shiah and other Muslims. In this article we have tried to determine the author’s opinions about theology and universe in rather classical kalâm sources and his opinions about leadership in his own works. We have aimed to objectively put forward opinions of theologians that supported the Islam belief in the era that Islam was getting its texture by regarding the era’s conditions in our study. As known, most of the works of the first era theologians who have contributed Islamic theologian’s formation have not reached today. It is important to know early era theologian’s opinions in order to learn under which conditions and how Islamic theology got formed.

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