Abstract
This study aims to present the concept of God in the Ash‘arî sect. The concept of God of the Ash‘arî school, which determines it due to the prevalence of the theological understanding of Islamic religiosity in the field, has an importance that will reveal the conception of God among Muslims. Because the history of Kalam, with its form in the post-Mu‘tezilah period, is in a way the history of the Ash‘arî school. Al-Ash‘arî spent most of his life in the Mu‘tazilah sect, but he probably did not see the theological interpretations of this school sufficient for him and left this sect and established his sect. His closeness to the dialectic of the Mu‘tazilah school, his knowledge of their terminology, is seen in his theological endeavours. Also, he treated Mu‘tazilah as the “other” in his school and included it as a school against which discourse was developed. Therefore, every theological study on the Ash‘ari school is in one aspect a Mu‘tazilian work. More understandably, it can be said that every research on the Ash‘arî school is a Mu‘tazilite reading.