Editing Mu'tazilism (section)

===''Ahl al-kalām''===
Scholar [[Daniel W. Brown]] describes the Mu'tazila as "the later ''ahl al-kalām''", suggesting the ''ahl al-kalām'' were forerunners of the Mu'tazili.<ref name=DWBRTMIT1996:15>[[#DWBRTMIT1996|Brown, ''Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought'', 1996]]: p.15</ref> The ''ahl al-kalām'' are remembered in Islamic history as opponents of [[Al-Shafi‘i]] and his principle that the final authority of Islam was the [[hadith]] of [[Muhammad]],<ref name=DWBRTMIT1996:13-15>[[#DWBRTMIT1996|Brown, ''Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought'', 1996]]: p.13-15</ref> so that even the Qur'an was "to be interpreted in the light of [the hadith], and not vice versa."<ref>J. SCHACHT, ''An Introduction to Islamic Law'' (1964), supra note 5, at 47</ref><ref name="Forte-1978-13">{{cite journal|last1=Forte|first1=David F.|title=Islamic Law; the impact of Joseph Schacht|journal=Loyola Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review|date=1978|volume=1|page=13|url=http://www.soerenkern.com/pdfs/islam/IslamicLawTheImpactofJosephSchacht.pdf|access-date=19 April 2018|archive-date=20 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420073952/http://www.soerenkern.com/pdfs/islam/IslamicLawTheImpactofJosephSchacht.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>