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Createdness of the Qurʾān

by Martin, Richard C.

fromEncyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

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The createdness of the Qurʾān as God’s speech (kalām Allāh) became the basis of a heated controversy in the second/eighth century that had serious theological and political consequences. The controversy was over the claim of some dialectical theologians (mutakallimūn) that the Q…