Mu'tazili

From Arabic مُعْتَزِلِيّ (muʕtaziliyy).

Mu'tazili (comparative more Mu'tazili, superlative most Mu'tazili)

1. (Islam, historical) Of or relating to the Mu'tazila.
   • 2002, Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of the Quran, affirmed the contrary – its uncreatedness – and made this a fundamental tenet of faith, as a way of asserting the superiority of the Quran to all human reasoning and knowledge.

Mu'tazili (plural Mu'tazilis)

1. (Islam, historical) A follower of Mu'tazili Islam.

• Mu'tazilite