Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi (Arabic: أحمد بن الطيب السرخسي; died 899 CE) was a Persian traveller, historian and philosopher from the city of Sarakh. He was a pupil of al-Kindi.[1]
Al-Sarakhsi was killed by Caliph al-Mu'tadid because, according to an anecdote preserved in Yaqut al-Hamawi's Mu'jam al-Udaba', he had urged the caliph towards apostasy. Al-Biruni reports in his Chronology that al-Sarakhsi had written books in which he denounced prophecy and ridiculed the prophets, whom he styled charlatans. However, Rosenthal has disputed the historicity of the stories that claim al-Sarakhsi was executed for heretical beliefs.[2]
References
Categories:
- Articles containing Arabic-language text
- 899 deaths
- Muslim philosophers
- Persian philosophers
- Arabic commentators on Aristotle
- 9th-century philosophers
- Medieval Islamic travel writers
- Muslim historians
- 9th-century historians
- Musical theorists of medieval Islam
- People executed by the Abbasid Caliphate
- 9th-century Iranian people
- People of the Abbasid Caliphate
