Mu'tazila

English

Alternative forms

  • Mutazila, Mutazilah, Mu'tazilah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُعْتَزِلَة (muʕtazila).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Mu'‧ta‧zi‧la

Proper noun

the Mu'tazila (historical, Islam)

  1. A theological school in Islam that valued reason over hadith interpretation and who believed that the Qur'an was created.

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Noun

Mu'tazila pl (plural only)

  1. The followers of this branch of Islam.
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