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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, is the author several books, including The Arabic Plotinus (2002) and Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi (2007) and Philosophy in the Islamic World (2016), and hosts the History of Philosophy podcast (https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/).God Willing: the Ash'aritesAl-Ash'arī puts his stamp on the future of Islamic theology by emphasizing God’s untrammeled power and freedom.Further ReadingM. Allard, Le problème des attributs divins dans la doctrine d’al-Ashʿarī et de ses premiers grands disciples (Beirut: 1965).R.M. Frank, “Bodies and Atoms: the Ash'arite Analysis,” in Medieval Islamic Thought, ed. M.E. Marmura (Toronto: 1984), 39-53.R.M. Frank, Early Islamic Theology: the Muʿtazilites and al-Ashʿarī (Aldershot: 2007).R. McCarthy (trans.), The Theology of al-Ashʿarī (Beirut: 1953).P.E. Walker (trans.), Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī: a Guide to Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief (Reading: 2000).H.A. Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Kalām (Cambridge MA: 1976).