Maʿbad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juhanī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Judd, Steven C.
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Maʿbad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUkaym al-Juhanī (executed c.80/699) was a Basran religious thinker who was associated with the Qadarī doctrine of human free will (qadar) . While he was ultimately condemned as a heretic, for a time he enjoyed a good reputation in Basra and was trusted by the Umayyad authorities. Al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf (d. 95/714), governor of the East, recommended him to the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik (r. 65-86/685-705) as an emissary to the Byzantine emperor. Maʿbad also tutored one of the