Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah b. Masarra b. Najih al-Jabali () (883–931), was an
Andalusian Muslim
ascetic
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and scholar.
He is considered one of the first
Sufis
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as well as one of the first
philosophers
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of
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus translit. ; an, al-Andalus; ast, al-Ándalus; eu, al-Andalus; ber, ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, label= Berber, translit=Andalus; ca, al-Àndalus; gl, al-Andalus; oc, Al Andalús; pt, al-Ândalus; es, al-Ándalus () was the M ...
.
He is believed to have been
Muwallad.
References
Sources
*Arnaldez, R. (1979) ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam,'' iii, pp. 868 - 872, Leiden: Brill. .
*
Asín Palacios, M. (1972) The Mystical Philosophy of Ibn Masarra and His Followers, trans. E.H. Douglas and H.W. Yoder, Leiden: Brill.
*Asín Palacios, M. (in Spanish, 1914)
Abenmassarra y su escuela : origenes de la filosofia Hispano-Musulmana.' Madrid: Imprenta Iberica.
*Chopra, R.M., "SUFISM", 2016, Anuradha Prakashan, New Delhi. .
*Rossi, Caterina A. ''Il trono - Ibn Masarrah di Cordoba (883-931), il proto-filosofo arabo d'Andalusia'', 2012, Moro Editore
*Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman, ''History of Islamic philosophy'', Routledge, 1996, Chapter 20, p. 277-29
retrieved on 23-07-2010
External links
Ibn-Masarraat ''muslimphilosophy.com''
883 births
931 deaths
9th-century Al-Andalus people
10th-century Al-Andalus people
10th-century philosophers
People from Córdoba, Spain
Islamic philosophers
Sufis of Al-Andalus
Scholars from the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
Philosophers of Al-Andalus
10th-century Spanish philosophers
Muwallads
Maliki scholars of Al-Andalus
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