Mutazilah

This book is among the contributions that I offer to the British reader in particular and to the Western reader in general on Arab-Islamic philosophy. However this book is distinguished from what I presented in my previous writings as it is limited to one school of thought excluding all other schools of thought which is the doctrine of the Mutazilites. The Mutazilism scholars played a dangerous and important role in the second Hijri century by cleaning the Arab mind of distortions and nonsense stuck in it and their principle was reason before quotation. The intellect is the decisive factor towards the written texts and the spoken sayings as they adhered to the verses of exaltation and gave the verses of analogy in accordance with the divine exaltation in the Qur'an. And so was their mental attitude towards the hadiths of the Prophet so what the mind accepts they take and what conflicts and contradicts it they reject and leave. Thus the Mutazilites confronted some Islamic sects led by the traditional conservatives of the Sunnites who prioritize quotation over reason.Although the confrontation ended in favour of the traditional conservative approach the Mutazilites were an infidel and fought against their presence continued to be limited scattered here and there. Also their ideas theories and some of their books continued to be preserved whether in the libraries of the Islamic sects that adapted to them such as the Zaydites in Yemen or in the works written by their opponents and enemies such as the Asharites Hanbalites and others.