Re: Quranist rise and end of Sunni/Shia sect
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They are the same group of people and the Abbasids simply tossed the Mu'tazilites to the curb. Especially during the reign of Mutawakkil. Its all in the same time period
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not before the mutazilites enjoyed significant influence and hadith scholars like ibn hanbal had to languish in jail and undergo torture.
it was the islamic verison of inquisition