Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ILAHIYAT TETKIKLERI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF ILAHIYAT RESEARCHES, sa.61, ss.92-105, 2024 (ESCI)
In this paper, we have examined the position of Abu Rashid al-Nisaburi in the school of Mu.tazila and his approach to the polemics within the school. He was one of the prominent students of Qa.i.Abd al-Jabbar and assumed the leadership of Mu.tazila of Basra after the death of his teacher. Although there is not much information about his life in the sources, it is reported that he belonged to the Baghdad school in the early years of his life and was influenced by the views of Abu'l-.asim al-Balkhi, who had a great reputation in the Khorasan region. In his surviving works, which are written from the perspective of the Basra school, he continues to refer to al-Balk_h_i's views extensively. The fact that he belonged to the Baghdad school in the early years of his life and later became a member of the Basra school gave him the opportunity to get to know both schools closely. Based on this experience, he wrote a work on the polemics between the two schools and defended the views of Abu Hashim al-Jubba.i against the Baghdad Mu'tazilites. When we closely examine al-Nisaburi's views, we can say that he preserved the Mu'tazilite point of view to a great extent during the period of the Buwayhids when Shiite tendencies started within the Mu.tazila. Instead of presenting different ideas and approaches, he tried to make the Mu'tazilite heritage more systematic and understandable by following the path of his teacher. He also put forward some unique approaches. In particular, he criticized early Mu'tazilite thinkers such as al-Na..am on the issue of sarfa and took an attitude close to the general Sunni view. As al- Shahrastani states, it is possible to see this close positioning of the Basra Mu'tazilites to Sunni thought in al-Nisaburi's views on prophethood and miracles. In our study, using the documentation technique, al-Nisaburi's works that have survived both in manuscript and printed form have been identified. These works were analyzed through content analysis and the results were evaluated.