Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti

Naubachtī, al-Hasan ibn Mūsā
Bornc. 9th century
Diedc. 10th century
Other namesNawbakhtī, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Mūsā; (نوبختي, أبو محمد الحسن بن موسى)
Occupation(s)philosopher, theologian, author on Shia Islam
Academic work
Notable worksFiraq aš-šī'a

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b Mūsā an-Nawbakhtī (الحسن بن موسى النوبختي; born late 9th century and died between 912 and 922) was a Persian and leading Shī'ī theologian and philosopher in the first half of the 10th century.[1][2][3] The Nawbakhtī family boasted a number of scholars famous at the Abbāsid court of Hārūn al-Rashīd. Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsa is best known for his book about the Shi'a sects titled Firaq al-Shi'a.

  1. ^ Ṭūsī (al-) 1885, p. 98, sect. 208.
  2. ^ Mas‘ūdī (al-) 1869, p. 156, I.
  3. ^ Nadīm (al-) 1970, p. 1071.