Imam Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī’s Rectifications of Qazi Abdul Jabbar al-Mutazili’s views in his tafseer Mafāṭīḥ al-ghayb (A critical Analytical study)

Abstract

Imam Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī, - Muslim theologian and scholar, universally acclaimed for his intellectual brilliance, and his extremely wide-ranging commentary on the Qur’an (Mafāṭīḥ al-ghayb) which ranks among the greatest works of its kind -. Imam Razi’s rationalism holds an important place in the debate in the Islamic tradition on the harmonization of reason and revelation.Istidrak means correction of mistake,completion of deficiency and larification of ambiguity.Islamic sciences have a long tradition of this area of research.The present article studies the juristic istidraks of Imam Fakhru Din Al-razi in his Tafsir (Mafāṭīḥ al-ghayb)on Qazi abdul jabbar Al-mutzili.It concludes that these scholar have been objective while criticizing or differing with others.They very politely pion out the mistakes of other scholars and try their best to guide their readers towards the accurate Islamic notions