Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (Persian: أَبُو مَنْصُور ٱلْمَاتُرِيدِيّ, romanized: Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; 853–944) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist of the Hanafi school, exegete, reformer, and speculative theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Maturidi school of Islamic theology, which became the dominant Sunni school of Islamic theology in Central Asia, and later enjoyed a preeminent status as the theological school of choice for both the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire.He was from a place called Māturīd or Māturīt in Samarqand (today Uzbekistan), and was known during his lifetime as Shaykh al-Islām and Imām al-Hudā ("Leader of Right Guidance"). He was one of the two foremost Imams of the Sunni Islam in his time, along with Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in matters of theological inquiry. In contrast al-Ashʿarī, who was a Shāfiʿī jurist, al-Māturīdī adhered to the eponymous school of jurisprudence founded by Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān, and to his creed (ʿaqīdah) as transmitted and elaborated by the Ḥanafī Muslim theologians of Balkh and Transoxania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi has received more than 299,200 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Abu Mansur al-Maturidi is the 379th most popular religious figure (up from 409th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Uzbekistan (up from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Uzbekistani Religious Figure.

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi is most famous for being the founder of the Maturidi school of Islamic theology, which is one of the four schools of Sunni Islamic theology. He is also famous for his work in the field of Islamic law.