Jahm bin Safwan

For JAHM, see Jewish American Heritage Month

Jahm ibn Safwan
جَهْم بن صَفْوان
Bornc. 696 CE
Samarkand
Diedc. 745 CE
Merv
EraIslamic Golden Age
SchoolJahmi
Main interests
Kalam · Philosophy
Notable ideas
Founder of the Jahmi school · Jabariyah
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox philosopher with unknown parameter "influences"

Jahm bin Safwan (Arabic: جَهْم بن صَفْوان, romanized: Jahm bin Ṣafwān) was an Islamic theologian of the Umayyad period and whose name has given rise to the Jahmiyya moniker. During his lifetime, he attached himself to the rebel leader Al-Harith ibn Surayj, a dissident in Khurasan. He was executed in 745 by Salm ibn Ahwaz.[1]

Reliable historical information about Jahm is sparse, coming from sources antagonistic towards him from later periods.[2]

  1. ^ Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam p.83, Leiden 1974
  2. ^ Suleiman, Farid (2019). Ibn Taymiyya und die Attribute Gottes. Worlds of Islam - Welten des Islam - Mondes de l'Islam (1. Auflage ed.). Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-3-11-062322-2. OCLC 1112223258.