Abū Sulaymān al-Sijistānī, Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. Bahrām al-Sijistānī (al-Sīstānī), known as al-Manṭiqī (‘the logician’), was a scholar and philosopher who lived in the 4th/10th century.
Doctrines and Beliefs
Abū Sulaymān is without doubt one of the most brilliant thinkers of the Islamic era. He was noted for his lonely life, and for suffering a bleak and bitter fate. Nonetheless, his residence in Baghdad was the meeting place and refuge for some of the most ou…