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Ashari Theology
Abu al-Hasan al-Ashari (874–935 AD) was himself a Mutazilite student who dramatically broke with his teacher and became the founder of classical Sunni theology. The Ashari school uses philosophical methods (kalam — Islamic scholastic theology) to defend traditionalist positions — accepting divine attributes, the eternity of the Quran, and divine omnipotence, but using rational argumentation rather than bare assertion. Key doctrines: divine attributes are real but not identical to God’s essence (against Mutazilism’s denial of attributes) and not separate from it (against naive anthropomorphism); human acts are ‘acquired’ (kasb) — God creates them but humans acquire moral responsibility for them; the Quran is eternal as God’s speech in itself, but the physical letters and sounds are created. Ashari theology became the dominant theological school of mainstream Sunni Islam, taught in most traditional Islamic universities to this day.