School of Muslim theology founded by Abū al-Ḥasan al-
It supported the use of reason and speculative theology ( kalām ) to defend the faith but was not as extreme in its rationalism as the {{link=Mutazilah">Mutazilah school. Followers attempted to demonstrate the existence and nature of God through rational argument, while affirming the eternal, uncreated nature of the Qurān . They were accused by the Muʽtazilah of believing in predestination because they claimed the human capacity for action was only acquired at the very moment of action.