Do you prefer the Ash'arism school or the Muʿtazila school?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash'ari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%CA%BFtazila

Easily Muʿtazila which sounds much closer to Christian theology too of course. Ash'arism sounds terrible honestly.

[afleitch]

Mu'tazilla. But in part because it's quite removed from Christian doctrine.

[Хahar 🤔]

The Mutazilite controversy is interesting because it is the only major doctrinal dispute in Islamic history focused on narrowly theological concerns. Such disputes have always been common in Christianity (see the endless contention regarding the nature of Christ), but schisms in Islam have always tended to focus on political legitimacy: the split between the Sunni and the Shia was originally political and only later acquired a theological dimension.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

The Mutazilites were, dare I say it, based.