At a glance
- Roles
- writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abdus al-Jahshiyari, a man of letters whose origin is in Kufa. The source says that he played a political role in the early fourth century AH through his ties with the viziers of his time, and that he died in 331 AH (942 CE). 1
What the sources do not give here
The data of this page give no details of his works or of the viziers he kept company with. It needs an additional source.
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Jahshiyari Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abdus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jahshiyari-abu-abd-allah-muhammad-ibn-abdus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.