Kitab al-Tawhid ('The Book of Monotheism') may refer to:
Tawhid is the concept of monotheism in Islam. Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept, upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests. It unequivocally holds that God is indivisibly one (ahad) and single (wahid).
Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam. Known by the title al-Sadiq, Ja'far was the founder of the Ja'fari school of Islamic jurisprudence. The hadith recorded from al-Sadiq and his predecessor, Muhammad al-Baqir, are said to be more numerous than all the hadith preserved from the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the other Shia imams combined. Among other theological contributions, he elaborated the doctrine of nass and isma, as well as that of taqiya.
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi was a Sunni scholar and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of theology in Sunnism. A follower of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, al-Maturidi was a leading figure of the Islamic Golden Age.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī (Arabic: ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah.
Sunan Abi Dawud is the third hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by Persian scholar Abu Dawud al-Sijistani.
Aqidah is an Islamic term of Arabic origin that literally means "creed". It is also called Islamic creed or Islamic theology.
Abu al-Hasan ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad ibn Khalil ibn ʿAbdallah al-Hamadani al-Asadabadi was an Persian Mu'tazili theologian, jurist and hadith scholar who is remembered as the Qadi al-Qudat of the Buyid dynasty, and a reported follower of the Shafi‘i school. Abd al-Jabbar means "Servant of al-Jabbar ." The Mu'tazila call him "Qadi al-Qudat" and do not give this title to anyone else.
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah was a prominent Muslim Muhaddith and Shafi'i jurist, best known for his hadith collection, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah.
Hisham ibn al-Hakam or Abul Hakam Hisham ibn Hakam Kendi was an 8th century AD Shiite scholar and a companion of Jafar al-Sadiq and Musa al-Kadhim. It was Hisham who defended the doctrine of Imamate. His debates on different religious matters are alive till present days.
Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Šāfiʿī al-Bājūrī (1784-1860) was an Egyptian-Ottoman scholar, theologian and a dean of the al-Azhar University. A follower of Imam Al-Shafiʽi, he authored over 20 works and commentaries in sacred law, tenets of faith, Islamic estate division, scholastic theology, logic and Arabic.
Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, was considered to be the most important Central Asian Hanafi theologian in the Maturidite school of Sunni Islam after Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, provided a fairly detailed account of al-Maturidi Central Asian predecessors.
Tabsirat al-Adilla fi Usul al-Din: 'ala Tariqat al-Imam Abi Mansur al-Maturidi, better known as Tabsirat al-Adilla, is considered as the second most important kalam book of the Maturidite school, after Kitab al-Tawhid of al-Maturidi himself, composed by Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi.
Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri was an Indian Islamic hadith scholar who served as the senior professor of hadith at the Mazahir Uloom in Saharanpur. He was one of the senior students and disciples of Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi. He taught at the Mazahir Uloom and authored books such as Al-Yawaqit al-Ghaliyah, Kitab at-Tawhid and Nawadir al-Hadith.
Al-Radd 'ala Ashab al-Hawa, better known as al-Sawad al-A'zam 'ala Madhhab al-Imam al-A'zam Abi Hanifa, is a book written by al-Hakim al-Samarqandi, and is considered as the oldest theological work in accordance with the Maturidite school, after Kitab al-Tawhid by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.
Ibn Kullab was an early Sunni theologian (mutakallim) in Basra and Baghdad in the first half of the 9th century during the time of the Mihna and belonged, according to Ibn al-Nadim, to the traditionalist group of the Nawabit. His movement, also called Kullabiyya, merged and developed into Ash'arism, which, along with Maturidism and Atharism, forms the theological basis of Sunni Islam.
Kitab al-Tawhid is a Sunni theological book, and the primary source of the Maturidi school of thought; written by the Hanafi scholar Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.
Asās al-Taqdīs, also known as Ta'sis al-Taqdis is an Islamic theological book, written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, as a methodical refutation of the Karramiyya and other anthropomorphists.
The Tawḥīd al-Mufaḍḍal, also known as the Kitāb fī badʾ al-khalq wa-l-ḥathth ʿalā al-iʿtibār, is a ninth-century treatise concerned with proving the existence of God, attributed to the early Shi'i Muslim leader al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi. The work presents itself as a dialogue between al-Mufaddal and the Shi'i Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, who is the main speaker.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar al-Juʿfī, died before 799, was an early Shi'i leader and the purported author of a number of religious and philosophical writings. A contemporary of the Imams Ja'far al-Sadiq and Musa al-Kazim (745–799), he belonged to those circles in Kufa whom later Twelver Shi'i authors would call ghulāt ('exaggerators') for their 'exaggerated' veneration of the Imams.
Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid is a Sunni theological treatise on the Hanafi scholastic speculative theology (kalam), written by the Maturidi theologian al-Saffar al-Bukhari as a defence of Sunni teachings against heretics, such as the Karramites (Karrāmiyya), Kharijites (Khawarij), Qadarites (Qadariyya), and Jahmites (Jahmiyya).