Ibn Al Muallim · Islam Museum

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Life in time

Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli · Abu Amir al-Azdi, the qadi Mahmud ibn al-Qasim al-Muhallabi

Overview

Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Mu'allim lived in the time of Ibn al-Nadim, and the leadership of the Shi'i theologians (mutakallimun) came to him. He was foremost in the craft of kalam according to the doctrine of his school. ²

Ibn al-Nadim says that he saw him and found him skilled, and describes him as keen in understanding and quick in judgement. ²

Sources

al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p. 252

al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi

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