Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari ( ar, أبو إسحاق الصفّار البخاري), was an important representative of the Sunni theological school of

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Ḥanafī al-Māturīdī al-Samarḳandī ( fa, أبو منصور محمد بن محمد بن محمود الماتریدي السمرقندي الحنفي; 853–944 CE), often referred t ...

(d. c. 333/944) and the author of '' Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid'' ( ar, تلخيص الأدلّة لقواعد التوحيد) which is a voluminous

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 ...

work. He lived in Bukhara under the dominance of West

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. His theological works, his method in

, and frequent reference to his works by Ottoman and

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scholars indicate that al-Saffar is a respected and authoritative

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who systematically establishes his ideas about kalam believing that information based upon reason, revealed knowledge and senses are determinative in his area.

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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Isma'il b. Ahmad b. Ishaq b. Shayth, known as al-Zahid al-Saffar. The alternative name Ibrahim b. Ishaq, recorded by

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in his GAL, is found only in the

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manuscript no. 1577, Add. 27526, and is presumably erroneous, since the few biobibliographical sources that mention al-Saffar call him Ibn Isma'il.

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In his work titled '' Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid'' on

kalām ''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 ...

, he spared extensive space for '' al-Asma' al-Husna'' (the Most Beautiful Names of God). Approximately one third of this work, published in two volumes, is devoted to al-Asma' al-Husna. In the pre-Saffar Hanafi-Maturidi theological literature, there is no other work that addresses al-Asma' al-Husna in such an extensive way.

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