Al-Ma’mun Wasn’t the Villain? The Truth About the Mihna | Junaid Mirza

Описание: In this episode of Sands of Time, Tarek Ibrahim and Mujir Muneeruddin sit down with Junaid Mirza for a deep, no-fluff breakdown of one of the most misunderstood moments in Islamic history: the Mihna (the Abbasid “inquisition”) under Caliph Al-Ma’mun.

Most people hear a simple story: Al-Ma’mun “went heretical,” scholars resisted, and Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal saved Sunni Islam. But the real story is more complex and way more interesting. We unpack how debates with Christians in Syria and Iraq shaped early theology, why the “created Qur’an” question even mattered, and how competing claims to religious authority (state, scholars, sects) helped form what later became “orthodoxy.”

This is a conversation about history, power, theology, and how narratives get rewritten by the winners and what lessons that gives Muslims today.

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