Typology of the Neo-Mu'tazilites movement in North Africabased on Skinner's intentional Method

After encountering modernity, the Islamic society experienced important changes, an example of which is the formation of various intellectual movements. Neo-Mu'tazilism is one of the important Islamic movements that was formed based on some concepts such as rationalism and humanism and gradually expanded. Although this movement took root in the Islamic world, the branch of the North African Neo-Mu'tazilism gained considerable variety and abundance, and its affiliated branches had their intellectual principles. The present research aims to recount the intellectual types of Neo-Mu'tazilites in North Africa using Skinner's intentional method of historical inquiry and to describe the discourse contexts that created it to explain the intellectual frameworks of Neo-Mu'tazilism in that geographical area. Examining the works of the Neo-Mu'tazilites shows that the intellectual typologies of the Neo-Mu'tazilism in North Africa were influenced by contemporary and geographical requirements, political structures, and their intellectual sphere, and they can be distinguished according to substantive differences such as the diversity of the intellectual context and the multiplicity of specific epistemological frameworks.