Holtzman, Livnat

Anthropomorphism (Ar. tashbīh, lit., making similar; comparing, likening), the tendency to liken God to man or to endow God with human traits, although supported by anthropomorphic descriptions of God in the Qurʾān and ḥadīth , was denounced time and again by scholars of almost …

Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥanbal Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Shaybānī al-Marwazī (164–241/780–855), also known as Imām Aḥmad or simply as Aḥmad, is the eponym of the Ḥanbalī school (madhhab) of law and theology and the most significant exponent of the traditionalist approach in Sunnī Islam. Num…

Abū l-Qāsim Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥasan b. Manṣūr al-Rāzī al-Ṭabarī al-Lālakāʾī (d. Tuesday 6 Ramaḍān 418/10 October 1027) was an expert in ḥadīth and the Shāfiʿī school of Islamic law. His nisba , al-Lālakāʾī (the variants al-Lālikāʾī, al-Alkaʾī, and al-Alkāyī are also mentioned in …