Tag: Aqeedah
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The History and Politics Behind Ash’ari/Athari/Salafi Aqeedah, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Let’s start from the beginning. Atharism (the traditionalist methodology associated with the Ahl al-Hadith) did not emerge as a later reform movement that converted an existing theological landscape; rather, it represents the earliest baseline of Sunni orthodoxy, predating the formal theological schools of speculative thought (Kalam), including Ash’arism.However, politics played a decisive, make-or-break role in…
