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Development of Muslim Theology: Appendix I: Illustrative Documents: I. Ash-Shahrastani on the Classification of Muslim Sects

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Then I applied myself to what of arrangement was easy of attainment and to what of attainment was easy of arrangement, until I had crowded them [the different opinions] into four fundamentals, which are the great principles. The first fundamental concerns the Qualities (sifat) with the Unity (tawhid); it embraces the question of the eternal (azali) Qualities, affirmed by some and denied by others, and of the exposition of the essential Qualities (sifat adh-dhat) and of the active Qualities…

Development of Muslim Theology: Appendix I: Illustrative Documents: I. Ash-Shahrastani on the Classification of Muslim Sects

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