Ibn Masarra

Ibn Masarra
Personal life
Born
Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Masarra ibn Najih al-Jabali

April 19, 883
Córdoba, Al-Andalus
Died931
Córdoba, Al-Andalus
NationalityAndalusian
Notable work(s)Risālat al-Iʿtibār, Kitāb Ḫawāṣṣ al-ḥurūf
OccupationAscetic, Scholar, Philosopher

Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Masarra ibn Najih al-Jabali[1] (883–931) was an Andalusian Muslim ascetic and scholar.[2] He is considered one of the first Sufis as well as one of the first philosophers of al-Andalus.[3]

Ibn Masarra was born in Córdoba in 883.[4] He is believed to have been Muwallad.[5] In his youth, he travelled to Kairouan and Mecca before settling in the Sierra Morena near his home town. This is the origin of his nickname, al-Jabali ('the mountain-dweller'). After his death in 931, his followers were accused of heresy and forced to publicly recant his teachings by the Umayyad authorities. In at least one case, his books were burnt.[4]

References

  1. ^ Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن مسرة بن نجيح الجبلي
  2. ^ Çağrici, Mustafa (1999). İBN MESERRE - An article published in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (in Turkish). Vol. 20 (Ibn Haldun - Ibnu'l Cezeri). TDV Encyclopedia of Islam. pp. 188–193. ISBN 9789753894470.
  3. ^ De Callataÿ, Godefroid (2022). "Review of: Sarah Stroumsa, Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain, Princeton University Press, Princeton–Oxford 2019 (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World, 3), XXI + 220 pp., ISBN: 9780691176437". Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge. 7: 647–649. doi:10.21071/mijtk.v7i.14152. S2CID 247928983.
  4. ^ a b Michael Ebstein, Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Ismāʿīlī Tradition (Brill, 2014), pp. 8–9.
  5. ^ Laet, Sigfried J. de (1994). History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. UNESCO. ISBN 9789231028137.

Sources

  • Arnaldez, R. (1979) The Encyclopaedia of Islam, iii, pp. 868 - 872, Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-08118-6.
  • 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. ISBN 978-93-85083-52-5.
  • 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. 277-293 [1] retrieved on 23-07-2010


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