Māturīdī

Māturīdī teaching spread from Transoxiana with Hanafi scholars who moved west from the late eleventh to the fourteenth century. Their teaching reached western Persia, Iraq, Anatolia, Syria and Egypt as Turkic powers expanded.

Maturidi theology held a prominent place under the Timurids and Ottomans. In Persia, where it had been influential among Sunnis, the Safavid dynasty made Twelver Shiism the state religion and pursued conversions from the sixteenth century.