Ebû Şekûr es-Sâlimî’nin İmana Dair Bazı Görüşleri
Abû Shakûr al-Sâlimî’s Some Views on Faith

Summary/Abstract: After the death of the Muhammad, the first question facing Muslims and needed to be answered was the issue of “who will be the caliph?”. The caliphate debates soon gained a political and religious dimension. The takfîr discourse of Hâricî group that emerged after the Sıffîn war led to the search for the answer to the question of the what the definition of faith is. For this reason, the major issues that every theologian who writes on religious topics, are the ıssue of faith and the issues that relating with faith. One of the Ḥanafî scholars of the Samarkand region, Abû Shakûr al-Sâlimî (d. after 460/1068) also dealt with the issues related to faith in his book al-Tamhîd fi bayân al-tavhîd, which he wrote about faith subjects. Considering that Mâturîdî kalâm school was systemized by Abû’l-Muîn al-Nasafî, who lived between 438-508 / 1047-1115 years, it would be understood that it would not be possible to talk about Mâturîdî while al-Sâlimî was alive. The fact that Sâlimî does not mention Mâturîdism in his book, should be considered as a supportive factor for this idea. For this reason, his book is important to deal with the pre-Mâturîdism religious subjects in the Samarkand region. In this study, the views of Sâlimî on the issues related to faith will be investigated in order to shed light on the way of evaluating the issues related to faith in Samarkand region in a period where Mâturîdism cannot be mentioned.

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