a member of an 8th-century liberal Muslim sect, later merged into the Shiahs
Word origin
from Arabic mu'tazilah body of seceders + -ite1
Mutazilite in American English
(muːˈtɑːzəˌlait)
noun
Islam
a member of a medieval theological sect, Mutazila, that maintained that nothing but eternity could be asserted regarding Allah, that the eternal nature of the Koran was questionable, and that humans have free will