At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi, a sage of many sciences. Yaqut relates, and Ahmad Amin repeats, that in his youth he felt a desire to travel from Balkh to Iraq to sit among the scholars. 2
His journey and learning
He went to Iraq on foot with the pilgrims and stayed there eight years. He travelled the neighbouring lands and met their great men and notables. 2
He was a pupil of Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi. He went deep into philosophy, took up the secrets of astrology and astronomy, excelled in medicine and natural science, and examined the principles of religion. 2
The years of his birth and death are not in the museum's data and need an additional source.
Connections
- Studied under
- al-Kindi
People and things also explored
Sources
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p. 434-435
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p.434-435
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-zayd-al-balkhi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.