- The
Mihna (Arabic: محنة خلق القرآن, romanized:
miḥna khalq al-qurʾān, lit. 'ordeal of
Quranic createdness') was a
period of
religious ****cution instituted...
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instituted an
inquisition known as the
mihna ("test, ordeal") to "ensure
acquiescence in this doctrine". The
mihna continued during the
reigns of Caliphs...
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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...
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imprison a **** Imam,
Ahmad ibn
Hanbal in an
event that
became known as
mihna. Al-Ma'mun's
foreign policy was due to his
decision to
continue war and...
- 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...
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deeply religious, and is
remembered for
discarding the Muʿtazila,
ending the
Mihna (a
period of ****cution of
Islamic scholars), and
releasing Ahmad ibn Hanbal...
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implement the
rationalist Islamic doctrine of Mu'tazilism and
implementing miḥna policy. A
younger son of
Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809), he rose to...
- clear. The
Abbasite Caliph Al-Ma'mūn (reigned 813–33)
criticized in his
Mihna edict a
group of people, who
related themselves to the
sunnah (nasabū anfusa-hum...
-
Ahmed ibn
Hanbal and the
Mihna: A
Biography of the Imam
Including An
Account of the
Mohammedan Inquisition Called the
Mihna, 218-234. Leiden: E. J. Brill...
