Abu Abdullah Ja'far ibn al-Aswad ibn al-Haytham was an
Isma'ili da'i
A da'i ( ar, داعي, dāʿī, inviter, caller, ) is generally someone who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam.
See also
* Dawah
* Da'i al-Mutlaq, "the absolute (unrestricted) missionary" (Arabic: الداعي المطلق)
* ...
born in 268 AH (881/2 CE) in
Qayrawan. He is the author of ''Kitāb al-Munāẓarāt'' ("The Book of discussions").
References
Ismaili da'is
880s births
People from Kairouan
10th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate
Ismaili theologians
Tunisian Muslim theologians
10th-century Ismailis
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