Shaykh al-Islam Mehmed Esad Efendi and his Pamphlets on the Asharism - Maturidism Disagreement


KALAYCI M.

HITIT UNIVERSITESI ILAHIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF DIVINITY FACULTY OF HITIT UNIVERSITY, sa.21, ss.99-134, 2012 (ESCI) identifier

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With regard to their contrubition to the development of Islamic thought, Asharism and Maturidism have an exeptional place compared to the other schools. From past to present two schools have played important role in the formation of religious terms, in the shaping of the contents of doctrinal matters and the ways they are dealt with. In the course of time many texts of controversy in which the disagreements between the two schools were discussed were composed. The AshariteMaturidite Literature of Disagreements drew attention mostly in the Ottomans and especially from the XIth/XVIIth century onward, large or small, many works on the matter were composed. The treatise entitled Risala fi Ikhtilafat al-Maturidi wa al-Ashari by Abu Ishaq-zade Mehmed Esad b. Ismail Efendi al-Istanbuli one of late period Ottoman scholars and shaykh al-Islams, is one of the texts produced within the scope of the Asharite-Maturidite Literature of Disagreements. In this article, various information is given about the life and the treatise of Mehmed Esad Efendi and the treatise is transliterated in Turkish.