Two Epistles on Predestination (Qadar)

Abstract

The Amavi Caliph Abd al-Malik b. Marwan demanded from al-Hasan al-Basri to report his views related with predestination which were unprecedented in content in a written text. Upon this urge, al-Hasan al-Basri write an epistle containing this views on predestination and sent it to the Caliph. This epistle which al-Hasan sent Amavi's Caliph Abd al-Malik on predestination was evaluated the first written text on Qadar in the Islamic world. The copy which we designed as the reduction of the original copy and which we translated for publication is based on the original manuscript copy of Gstanbul Sophia.