Muḥammad ʾĀmīn ʾAstarābādī ( fa, محمدامین استرآبادی, died 1623/24 or 1626/1627) was an Iranian theologian and founder or proponent of the orthodox conservative (Akhbari) strand in

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ic belief, those who base their theology on

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

s and reject

fatwa A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...

s. He was born in Astarabadi, the former name of

Gorgan Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies appro ...

. Astarabadi saw himself as a reviver of a lost Islamic tradition, known as the ''sunnah''. He was followed by a number of scholars who explicitly identified themselves with the Akhbari. These scholars called for the return to the hadith sources, in a belief that the words and actions of the

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were readily seen, but had been corrupted by centuries of excessive commentary.

Works

* ''Fawāʾid al Madaniyyah fī ar Radd ʿalā min qāl bal ʾIjtihād wa at Taqlīd fī al ʾAḥkām al ʾilāhiyya''() * ''Ḥāshiyyah ʿalā Sharḥ al Madarāk'' () * ''Sharḥ at Tahdhīb'' () * ''Sharḥ al ʾIstibsār'' () * ''ʾUnmūdhaj al ʿUlūm'' ()

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* Abisaab, Rula J. (2015) "Shi`i Jurisprudence, Sunnism and the Traditionist Thought (akhbārī) of Muhammad Amin Astarabadi (d. 1036/1626-7), IJMES 47: 5-23. * Newman, Andrew J. (1992) "The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli Dispute in Late Safawid Iran, Part 2: The Conflict Reassessed" ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London'' 55(2): pp. 250–261 * Gleave, Robert (2004) "Akhbariyya" ''Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World'' (ed. Richard C. Martin) Vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, New York, * Gleave, Robert (2007) ''Scripturalist Islam: the history and doctrines of the Akhbari Shi'i school'' Brill Academic, Leiden, 1620s deaths Hadith scholars Year of birth unknown 17th-century Muslim theologians Iranian Shia scholars of Islam 16th-century writers of Safavid Iran Safavid theologians 17th-century writers of Safavid Iran People from Gorgan 17th-century Iranian writers {{Iran-bio-stub

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