NMC277H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Baibars, Imad Ad-Din Zengi, Samanid Empire
10 Aug 2016
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Crusades: sunni revivavl, madrassa institution, sufism and extolling jerusalem. How sunni revival as thrological/polito-military movement arose to unite sunnism against. Problems and challenges to sunnism further sub sects hanbali (abbasid), shafi (seljuqs), hanafi (turkish) Trends abbasids still strong spiritual and temporal. During early 9th century harun ar rashid establishing the bait al hikma house of. Wisdom part of the caliph"s palace promoted the translation movement. Syriac christians knew arabic, greek and syriac. Sources of authority important because dependent on the quran interpretation hadith or what the follower or companion heard. Mutazilite interpret without the use of hadith reason without citing authorities ahmad ibn hanbal father of salafism resisted torture and what the caliph tried to force down on him. Mutazilites known as people of justice and unity god has no human attributes. God has a tongue quran as speech of god. Traditionalist believe that the quran is eternal but mutazilite god has no speech and hence quran was created.
