The Maturidi School

Reviewed by: Muzaffar Iqbal – Center for Islamic Sciences, Canada

Published by: Oldham, UK: Beacon Books, 2021, 240pp. ISBN-13: 978-1912356720.

This brief survey of the Māturīdī positions on salient issues of creed brings to English readers a wealth of information in a sweeping manner, listing in its first section (“Salient Themes of Maturidism”) which include not only well-established topics (the faith of the imitator, kasb, differentiation between divine pleasure and divine will), but also the author’s self-constructed “salient features”, such as “The Orientalist construct of Māturīdīs as near Muʿtazilīs (pp. 10-12), “The Wahhābī construct of Māturīdīs as ‘denying all’ but a handful of divine attributes”, “the Muʿtazilī and Deobandi position that ‘Allah is described as having power to lie’”.