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Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī
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Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī, Muḥammad b. Abī Dharr Yūsuf al-ʿĀmirī al-Nīsābūrī (ca. 300/913–27 Shawwāl 381/6 January 992), was a philosopher and logician, with mystical leanings.

Life

Abū al-Ḥasan was born in Nīsābūr where he began studying the religious sciences, and then he moved to Shāmistiyān, a small village near Balkh. There he studied philosophy with Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (q.v.) (Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī, Rasāʾil, ed. Khalīfāt, 65). After his teacher's death, he returned to Bukhārā and from there he went to Tashk…

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Part II: Sayyad Javad Tabatabai, Ebrahimi Dinani, Gholamhossein and Translated by Saleh Nejad, “Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 10 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_0072>
First published online: 2015



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