Ibn Masarra
Ibn Masarra ( Arabic أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن مسرة بن نجيح الجبلي, DMG Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allaah b. Masarra b. Naǧīḥ al-Ǧabalī , calledابن مسرة / Ibn Masarra ; born 882 or 883; died 931 in Córdoba ) was a Muslim mystic and philosopher. He is counted among the early Sufis and is also believed to be the first Islamic philosopher of al-Andalus .
Ibn Masarra had first contacts with mystics on a trip to the Orient and on his return founded a secret brotherhood with some students in a hermitage in the mountains of Cordoba. His works have survived neither in fragments nor as original texts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eliade, Mircea: History of religious ideas. Freiburg: Herder, 1983, Volume III / 1, pp. 135-136.
- ↑ Asín Palacios, Miguel: The Mystical Philosophy of Ibn Masarra and his Followers. Leiden: EJBrill, 1978, p. 43.
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| SURNAME | Ibn Masarra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ibn Massara; Ibn Massarra; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allaah b. Masarra b. Naǧīḥ al-Jabalī |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Muslim mystic and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 882 or 883 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 931 |
| Place of death | near Cordoba |