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Mujassimite (anthropotheist), schools for their over-emphasis on taqlid (imitation) in his Istihsan al-Khaud. Instead, al-Ash'ari affirmed the ambiguous verses in the Qur'an (such as those about the hand and eyes) without a "how" (modality) and without a meaning (meaning, he consigned the meaning to God), a practice known as tafwid. He also allowed another orthodox way of dealing with the ambiguous verses

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