Shaqīq al-Balkhī

by Mojaddedi, Jawid

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Abū ʿAlī Shaqīq b. Ibrāhīm al-Azdī al-Balkhī (d. 194/810) was a renunciant, a student of the frontier ascetic Ibrāhīm b. Adham (d. c.165/782), and the teacher of Ḥātim al-Aṣamm (d. 237/851–2). His nisba associates him with the region of Balkh, in northern Khurāsān, where he lived his life (the nisba is the part of a Muslim name that originally indicated a tribal or geographic origin and, later, often referred to a special characteristic or profession). Little is known about the details of

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Abū ʿAlī Shaqīq b. Ibrāhīm al-Azdī al-Balkhī (d. 194/810) was a renunciant, a student of the frontier ascetic Ibrāhīm b. Adham (d. c.165/782), and the teacher of Ḥātim al-Aṣamm (d. 237/851–2). His nisba associates him with the region of Balkh, in northern Khurāsān, where he lived his life (the nisba is the part of a Muslim name that originally indicated a tribal or geographic origin and, later, often referred to a special characteristic or profession). Little is known about the details of

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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