Sa'id 'Abd al-Latif Foudah ( ar, سعيد عبد اللطيف فودة) is a

Shafi'i The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...

Ash'ari Ashʿarī theology or Ashʿarism (; ar, الأشعرية: ) is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Muslim scholar, Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer, and scholastic theologian Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in the ...

academic working in

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kalam ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doc ...

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

legal theory Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

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usul al-fiqh Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, also known as ''uṣūl al-fiqh'' ( ar, أصول الفقه, lit. roots of fiqh), are traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence (''fiqh'') for deriving the rulings of Islamic law ('' ...

), and a prolific polemicist best known for his criticism of

Ibn Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , 'Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influenti ...

and his school,), a refutation of the teachings of Ibn Arabi as contained in the writings of al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani. * ''Al-Kashif al-Saghir 'An 'Aqa'id Ibn Taymiyya'' ( ar, الكاشف الصغير عن عقائد ابن تيمية), regarding the creed of Ibn Taymiyya. He dedicated this work to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1210) and

Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari Muhammad Zahid b. Hasan al-Kawthari (; 1879–1952) was the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, a Hanafi Maturidi scholar. Overview He was born in 1879 in Düzce, now in Turkey (back then in the Ottoman Empire), to fam ...

(d. 1371/1951). * ''Risalatan fi Wahdat al-Wujud'' ( ar, رسالتان في وحدة الوجود), a refutation of the teachings of Ibn Arabi, which expands upon the refutation in "Fatḥ al-Wadūd". * ''Munāqashāt wa Rudūd Maʿa al-Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulsī'' ( ar, مناقشات و ردود مع الشيخ عبد الغني النابلسي), a refutation of the teachings of Ibn Arabi as found in the works of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulsī, which further expands upon the refutation found in Foudah's previous anti-Ibn Arabi output. * '' Risala fi al-Radd 'ala Ibn Taymiyya'' ( ar, رسالة في الرد على ابن تيمية في مسألة حوادث لا أول لها), commentary on the book of , concerning Ibn Taymiyya's belief in

infinite regress An infinite regress is an infinite series of entities governed by a recursive principle that determines how each entity in the series depends on or is produced by its predecessor. In the epistemic regress, for example, a belief is justified beca ...

. * ''Naqd al-Risala al-Tadmuriyya'' ( ar, نقض الرسالة التدمرية, lit=A Critique of the Palmyran Creed: Deconstructing Ibn Taymiyya's Theology of Resemblance), critique of Ibn Taymiyya's work on creed. Translated into English by Suraqah Abdul Aziz. * '' Tahdhib Sharh al-Sanusiyya: Umm al-Barahin'' ( ar, تهذيب شرح السنوسية: أم البراهين, lit=A Refined Explanation of the Sanusi Creed: The Foundational Proofs), summary of the explanation of the creed of (d. 895/1490). Translated into English by Suraqah Abdul Aziz. * ''Tad'im al-Mantiq'' ( ar, تدعيم المنطق, lit=The Reinforcing of Logic), in support of the science of

. * ''Misbah al-Arwah fi Usul al-Din'' ( ar, مصباح الأرواح في أصول الدين, lit=The Lamp of the Souls on the Principles of Religion), editing of

al-Baydawi Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d. June 1319, Tabriz) was a Persian jurist, theologian, and Quran commentator. He lived during the post-Seljuk and early Mongol era. Many commenta ...

's work on

scholastic theology Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism emerged within the monastic schools that translate ...

. * '' Muljimat al-Mujassima'' ( ar, مُلجمة المجسمة, lit=Curbing the Anthropomorphists), editing of 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari's work against Ibn Taymiyya. * ''Masa'il al-Ikhtilaf bayna al-Asha'ira wa al-Maturidiyya'' ( ar, مسائل الاختلاف بين الأشاعرة والماتريدية, lit=The Differences between the Ash'aris & Maturidis), commentary on Ibn Kamal Pasha's work about the differences between the Ash'aris and the

Maturidis Māturīdī theology or Māturīdism ( ar, الماتريدية: ''al-Māturīdiyyah'') is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Persian Muslim scholar, Ḥanafī jurist, reformer (''Mujaddid''), and scholastic th ...

in theology, in which Foudah succinctly explains the causes of the disagreements and their levels. Translated into English by Suraqah Abdul Aziz.

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on Islamic & Strategic Studies Institute (ISSI) {{Authority control 1967 births Living people 21st-century Muslim theologians Asharis Shafi'is Religion academics Muslim reformers Critics of Ibn Taymiyya Critics of Wahhabism Critics of atheism Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam People from Jaffa Jordanian people of Palestinian descent

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