Bakr al-Mawṣilī

by Langermann, Y. Tzvi

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Bakr b. al-Qāsim b. Abī Thawr al-Mawṣilī , a philosopher of the early fourth/tenth century, has left us a single short treatise, Fī l-nafs (“On the soul”), preserved uniquely in MS London, British Library Add. 7473, fols. 6r–12r. This tract takes the form of a letter to Bakr's former teacher, Abū ʿUthmān Sāʿīd b. Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī (d. after 302/914). Bakr's relationship with him provides the only clue to Bakr's floruit, which must have been around the turn of the fourth/tenth

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Bakr b. al-Qāsim b. Abī Thawr al-Mawṣilī , a philosopher of the early fourth/tenth century, has left us a single short treatise, Fī l-nafs (“On the soul”), preserved uniquely in MS London, British Library Add. 7473, fols. 6r–12r. This tract takes the form of a letter to Bakr's former teacher, Abū ʿUthmān Sāʿīd b. Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī (d. after 302/914). Bakr's relationship with him provides the only clue to Bakr's floruit, which must have been around the turn of the fourth/tenth

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1275

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eng Islam

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Langermann, Y. Tzvi

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