Abu Mansur Muhammad al-Maturidi (Imam al-Huda)
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Abu Mansur Muhammad al-Maturidi (Imam al-Huda) 🇺🇿

أبو منصور محمد بن محمد الماتريدي (Known as "Al-Maturidi")
Imam of Guidance, Founder of the Maturidite Theological School, Central Asian Rationalist Scholastic
Born c. 853 CE (238 AH) 🇺🇿 Maturid (Samarkand), Uzbekistan
Passed Away c. 944 CE (333 AH) Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Lifespan 91 years old
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"Reason is God's scale on earth. Revelation informs what reason cannot attain, but reason must verify revelation and establish justice."

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Central Asian theologian celebrated as "Imam of Guidance" who founded the Maturidi school of theology, predominant across Turkish, Central Asian, and South Asian Muslim civilizations. Championed the inherent rationality of ethics and divine wisdom.

Biographical Record

Living in the Silk Road metropolis of Samarkand, Al-Maturidi systematized Hanafi theology against sectarian dualists, fatalists, and extreme literalists. His monumental works, Kitab al-Tawhid and the massive Quranic commentary Ta'wilat al-Qur'an, emphasized that moral good and evil can be recognized through human intellect.

He articulated the doctrine of divine wisdom (Hikmah) underpinning all creation and defended human free agency within the sovereign divine decree, his restored mausoleum standing proudly in historic Samarkand.

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Mausoleum of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
GPS: 39.6583, 66.9750
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