- The
Mihna (Arabic: محنة خلق القرآن, romanized:
miḥna khalaq al-qurʾān, lit. 'ordeal of
Quranic createdness') (also
known as the
first Muslim inquisition)...
-
instituted an
inquisition known as the
mihna ("test, ordeal") to "ensure
acquiescence in this doctrine". The
mihna continued during the
reigns of Caliphs...
- Mu'tazilism and the ****cution of its
opponents through the
inquisition (
miḥna).
Although not
personally interested in
literary pursuits, al-Mu'tasim also...
-
movement reached its
political height during the
Abbasid Caliphate during the "
mihna", an 18-year
period (833–851 CE) of
religious ****cution
instituted by...
- for
imprisoning Imam
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the rise of
religious ****cution (
mihna), and for the
resumption of large-scale
warfare with the
Byzantine Empire...
- 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...
- 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...
-
deeply religious, and is
remembered for
discarding the Muʿtazila,
ending the
Mihna (a
period of ****cution of
Islamic scholars), and
releasing Ahmad ibn Hanbal...
-
Apogee al-Mahdi al-Hadi
Harun al-Rashid
Barmakids Sack of
Heraclea al-Amin
Fourth Fitna al-Ma'mun Graeco-Arabic
translation movement Mu'tazilism and
Mihna...
- of
reason in
understanding the
Quran and hadith, as can be seen in the
Mihna example.
Although the
rationalists initially seemed to gain the
upper hand...
