This chapter provides a history of Hanbali theology from the formation of the Hanbalis as a schoo...

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This chapter provides a history of Hanbali theology from the formation of the Hanbalis as a school of law in the late ninth and early tenth centuries through to the Wahhabis of Arabia in the eighteenth century. The Hanbalis had a disproportionate impact on the development of Islamic theology because they opposed Kalam theology more consistently than did the other Sunni law schools. Among the major figures discussed herein are Abu Ya‘la, Ibn ‘Aqil and Ibn Jawzi in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries and Ibn Taymiyya, Najm al-Din al-Tufi, and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya in the early fourteenth century.