The role of the Ash'ari creed in the Islamization of theological sciences and achieving the intellectual stability

Abstract

Since the features of Islamic civilization began to form in the civil prophetic era, the idea of ​​benefiting from the sciences and knowledge of other nations is present in the prophetic thought and after him the Rightly Guided Caliphs. Then this idea grew clearly after the translation movement in the Umayyad era and its prosperity in the Abbasid era and Islamic scholars are trying their best to harness this Science and knowledge and benefiting from them to spread Islam or defend or support its faith and to show its conformity to normal human nature and sound human reason, so some succeeded in this matter and others failed in it.

In this research, we shed light on the failure and luck of success that accompanied the Mu'tazila in their quest to achieve this project, which lasted for decades and was characterized by confusion, wandering and intellectual chaos. Then the researcher tried to show the great role played by the Ash'ari doctrinal school, represented by its founder, Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, in its endeavor to correct the course of the Islamization of science and knowledge, and an explanation of the great success has been identified in achieving the ideological intellectual stability of the Islamic nation due to its tolerance, moderation and rationality in dealing with ideological intellectual matters, following a middle approach that combines adherence to the legal texts and the positions of the predecessors and relying on the mind and its tools and logical arguments in what can be relied upon on them. Thus, he established an ideological approach that was accepted by the majority of the Islamic nation and its scholars