- The
Mihna (Arabic: محنة خلق القرآن, romanized:
miḥna khalq al-qurʾān, lit. 'ordeal of
Quranic createdness') was a
period of
religious ****cution instituted...
-
instituted an
inquisition known as the
mihna ("test, ordeal") to "ensure
acquiescence in this doctrine". The
mihna continued during the
reigns of Caliphs...
- that the
Quran was not created, but eternal. Wael
Hallaq argues that the
Mihna was not just
about whether or not the
Quran was created. The
issues of ra’y...
- for
imprisoning Imam
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the rise of
religious ****cution (
mihna), and for the
resumption of large-scale
warfare with the
Byzantine Empire...
-
movement reached its
political height during the
Abbasid Caliphate during the "
mihna", an 18-year
period (833–851 CE) of
religious ****cution
instituted by...
- twenty-four
years of his life
teaching the
hadith he had collected.
During the
mihna, he fled to Khartank, a
village near Samarkand,
where he then also died...
-
deeply religious, and is
remembered for
discarding the Muʿtazila,
ending the
Mihna (a
period of ****cution of
Islamic scholars), and
releasing Ahmad ibn Hanbal...
- the ****
religious scholars. This
controversial policy,
known as the
Mihna, was
eventually abandoned in 848. Ultimately, it
failed to
convince the...
- Mu'tazilism and the ****cution of its
opponents through the
inquisition (
miḥna).
Although not
personally interested in
literary pursuits, al-Mu'tasim also...
-
Ahmed ibn
Hanbal and the
Mihna: A
Biography of the Imam
Including An
Account of the
Mohammedan Inquisition Called the
Mihna, 218-234. Leiden: E. J. Brill...
