# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-ash-ari
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:49.520Z

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name: "Al-Ash'ari"
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description: "He found the middle ground in a theological war that was tearing ninth-century Islam apart — and that middle ground became the mainstream. Al-Ash'ari's school reconciled reason with tradition when both sides thought compromise was heresy."
tagline: "Muslim theologian (874–936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abu_al-Hasan_al-Ashari.png"
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birthDate: "873"
deathDate: "935"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 874 CE, Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari entered a world where Islamic theology had split into hostile camps: the Mu'tazilites, who leaned hard on rationalism, and the Atharists and Hanbalis, who rejected speculative theology entirely. Al-Ash'ari opposed the Mu'tazili position on God's eternal attributes and whether the Quran was created, but he also refused the traditionists' blanket condemnation of philosophical debate. Instead he built a synthesis — kalam grounded in both theological rationalism and the interpretation of the Quran and Sunna. That intermediary position, formalized as the Ash'ari school, eventually became the predominant framework of Sunni theological thought. Shia Muslims do not accept his doctrines; his works included refutations of Shia Islam. He died in 936, but the architecture he left has organized Sunni belief for a millennium.