Abu Hatim Ahmad Ibn Hamdan al-Razi | |
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Died | 322 H (934 CE) |
Era | Medieval era |
Region | Islamic philosophy |
School | Isma'ilism |
Main interests | Philosophy, Theology, Proselytism, Exegesis, Jurisprudence |
Notable ideas | Precedence of Qadar over Qada |
Abū Ḥātim Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān al-Rāzī (Persian: ابو حاتم احمد بن حمدان الرازی) was a Persian[1] Ismaili philosopher of the 9th century, who died in 322 AH (935 CE).[2][3] He was also the Da'i al-du'at (chief missionary) of Ray and the leader of the Ismaili da'wah in Central Persia.
secondly, some very great Shi'i thinkers who were ethnically Persian, such as the Isma'ilis, Abu Hatim Razi and Sijistani in the fourth/tenth century, or the Imamis, Nasir al-DIn Tusi (seventh/thirteenth century) and 'Allama Hilli (seventh-eighth/thirteenth-fourteenth centuries) and many others, were to continue to write in Arabic.