Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Sayf al-Qurashi, commonly known by his nisba al-Mada'ini, was a scholar of Iranian descent who wrote in Arabic and was active under the early Abbasids in Iraq in the first half of the 9th century.
Writers born in the 750s 6
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Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Sayf al-Qurashi, commonly known by his nisba al-Mada'ini, was a scholar of Iranian descent who wrote in Arabic and was active under the early Abbasids in Iraq in the first half of the 9th century. A scholar of many interests, he wrote over 200 works, but is best known as a historian.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 752 to 843 · aged 91
Written about in
15 languages
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