- The
Mihna (Arabic: محنة خلق القرآن, romanized:
miḥna khalaq al-qurʾān, lit. 'ordeal of
Quranic createdness') (also
known as the
first Muslim inquisition)...
-
instituted an
inquisition known as the
mihna ("test, ordeal") to "ensure
acquiescence in this doctrine". The
mihna continued during the
reigns of Caliphs...
- for
imprisoning Imam
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the rise of
religious ****cution (
mihna), and for the
resumption of large-scale
warfare with the
Byzantine Empire...
-
movement reached its
political height during the
Abbasid Caliphate during the "
mihna", an 18-year
period (833–851 CE) of
religious ****cution
instituted by...
- that the
Quran was not created, but eternal. Wael
Hallaq argues that the
Mihna was not just
about whether or not the
Quran was created. The
issues of ra’y...
- Mu'tazilism and the ****cution of its
opponents through the
inquisition (
miḥna).
Although not
personally interested in
literary pursuits, al-Mu'tasim also...
- twenty-four
years of his life
teaching the
hadith he had collected.
During the
mihna, he fled to Khartank, a
village near Samarkand,
where he then also died...
-
which Ahl al-Hadith
remained silent.
Other proposed reasons include that a
mihna resulted from the
discussion in this
discipline of
whether the Quran, which...
-
Hanbal became famous in his
later life for the
crucial role he pla**** in the
Mihna instituted by the
Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun
toward the end of his reign,...
-
continued support for the
doctrine of Mu'tazilism, and his
reactivation of the
mihna to root out opponents. In
foreign affairs, the
perennial conflict with the...
