Ibn Aqil

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Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi (1040-1119) was an Islamic theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. Trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school (madhab), the most traditional school of Islamic law, he outraged his teachers by striving to incorporate liberal theological ideas into the tradition. He sought to use reason and logical inquiry to interpret religion, and he was influenced by the teachings of mystic al-Hallaj (d.922).[1] In 1066 he was appointed professor at the mosque of al-Mansur in Baghdad, but persecution by conservative theologians soon led to his retirement, and in 1072 he was forced to retract his beliefs publicly. Among his works of jurisprudence that have survived are Wadih fi usul al-fiqh and (in part) Kitab al-funun.[2]

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  1. ^ Abu al-Mughith ibn Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Hallaj was a Persian Sufi missionary. Claimed to have experianced an ecstatic sense of spiritual oneness with God, declaring, Ana al-haqq (I am Truth, i.e. God). Claimed a religious authority greater than that of caliphs and religious scholars due to his possession of divine presence.
  2. ^ John L. Esposito, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2003
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