Khalil Hamadouche

Between Ashʿarism and Salafism: The Contested Reception History of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s Creed from the Fourth/Tenth Century to the Present

This article analyses the reception history of the creedal chapter of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s (d. 386/996) Risāla , a text that has generated more than 200 commentaries over the past millennium. Ashʿarī and Salafī scholars have been engaged in an intellectual tug-of-war over the creedal affiliation of the tex...