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A major theologian from the early fourteenth-century Iran, al-Ījī is one of the last representatives of the classical Ash‘arite theological tradition. His summa al-Mawāqif and his Ash‘arite creed have been crucial in Sunnī teaching and commentary down to our day.
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Kaukua, J. (2022). Al-Ījī. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_7
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