Freedom of Will According to Maturidi in Terms of Theo-Psychology

Abstract

Maturidi, who is one of the leading scholars in Islamic thought, lived in Transoxiana where different ideas from Islamic geography were intensively discussed. Maturidi came across with various Islamic and non-Islamic schools of thoughts in his era and acquainted himself with different philosophical and religious ideas. Maturidi trained himself in accordance with wide-scale opinions. Maturidi did not evaluate Islamic faith with the context of absolute debates; instead he issued Islamic thought with philosophical, sociological, psychological and educational perspectives. Maturidi approached the Creator-human relation and the reasons behind the existence of humanity in accordance with Qur'an, authentic hadith and mind. He made a breakthrough in Islamic thoughts and handled various phenomena in accordance with freedom of humanity and freedom of will as well as psychological and philosophical analysis of human behaviors.