Mu'tazila
A tradition no longer extant within Islam. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Mu'tazila is recorded within Islam and is no longer extant. Also written Mu'tazilites, Ahl al-'Adl wa'l-Tawhid (self-designation).
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Wasil b. 'Ata (d. 748). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam names Wasil b. 'Ata (d. 748) as the founder and places the school's establishment in the first half of the 8th century CE. No founding year is stated by any source reached, and none is estimated.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Mu'tazila.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-mutazila.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Mu'tazila},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-mutazila},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.