The issue of the attribution of divine attributes in the early māturīdīs

This thesis investigates how the attributes of the divine attributes appear in the early Māturīdī texts. In our study, "the issue of divine attributes", which is one of the issues that form the basis of the science of kalām, is discussed in the context of its relationship with the universe. In the works on kalām, the relationship of these attributes, which are eternal like God's essence, with the objects that came into existence later (hâdis) is explained with the concept of "taalluk". Although the fields of the attributes and their types were discussed in detail in the later texts, references to the early scholars are noteworthy in the opinions put forward. This study analyzes the semantic position of the concept of "interference" within the framework of Imām al-Māturīdī's Kitāb al-Tawḥīd, Abū al-Yusr al-Pazdawī's Usūl al-dīn, and Abū al-Muʾīn al-Nafṣī's Tabṣirat al-adillah. In these texts, it is observed that the discussions on the proof and essence of attributes are more prominent. However, the concept of taalluk was also mentioned in the context of the views of other sects, especially the Mu'tazilites, on attributes. Our thesis also includes comparisons of the discussions on taalluk in the texts of the later period. As a result, it is revealed that the concept of "taalluk" attributed to the attributes of "taqwīn" and "might" is evaluated in different ways by Ashʿarī and Māturīdī scholars within the Ahl al-Sunnah. Within the framework of the reflections of the debates on the subject of attribution, the different understandings of the relationship between God and the universe in the context of the attributes of God's power, taqwīn, and will were discussed, and the problems of human capacity, fate, and evil were pointed out within the framework of the attributes of will and knowledge. In the context of the attribute of kalām, the relationship between the taxpayer and the eternal address is tried to be revealed.