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Originally Posted by Aliinaa
Okay, just to clear my concept I wanted to ask:
So basically, Ash'arites were moderate. They took a middle road i-e they saw religion both in terms of revelations and reason. But on the other hand, Mutazilites took an extreme approach. For them only reason, was a tool for explaining the mysteries of religion. Am I right so far?
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Ash'arite didn't take a middle ground. They only defended the extreme position of traditionalists using reasoning tools like Aristotelian logic and dialectic method. From 11th century Ash'arite main doctrines became synonymous with the Orthodox Sunni theological thought.
They arose basically as an anti-thesis to Mutazilites. They were disposed to believe the Quran in literal sense that the throne of God is actually a physical throne and hand of God is a physical hand as opposed to Mutazilites who considered all these as symbols.
Ash'arites were basically Orthodox scholars using philosophy for defense of their position.