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Ibn ar Riwandi: Kitab Fadihat al-Muʻtazilah 

(The Scandal of the Mu'tazilites)  (d910)

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Taken from: Ibn ar-Riwandi's Kitab Fadihat al-Muʻtazilah: analytical study of ...by أعسم، عبد الأمير

 

(About claims made by the Mu'tazilite (1))

Nr 82: Many of them claim that negroes (zanj) can compose verse and write letters. 

Nr 83: Most of them claim that a man tied down by a weight of two thousand……….

 

Left Al Kindi one of the most famous Mutazila


(1) Mu'tazilite: Originally; Those who would neither condemn nor sanction Caliph ʿAlī or his opponents but took a middle position. Later: By the 10th century CE the term had also come to refer to an Islamic school of speculative theology in Basra and Baghdad.