What the Quran Says About Allah's Names and Attributes

The bulk of what you find in a classical textbook is actually because of controversies that happened outside of Islam and we had to respond to those controversies. The Sahaba never debated the reality of Allah's names and attributes for example Yet every group has to spend thousands of pages Discussing Allah's names or attributes. But when Muslims conquered Christian lands and the Christians were discussing the nature of Jesus the nature of logos is the logos created uncreated This was a controversyoutside of Islam and when the Muslims came across them So then these questions were imported into Islam and Muslims had to discuss is the Quran created uncreated How do we understand the attributes of Allah because the Christians were discussed it not because the Sahaba were