Al-Ashʿarī (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
Al-Ashʿarī (full name, Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn Ismail al- Ashʿarī) was born in Basra in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in 873 or 874. He may have been a descendant of the famous Abu Musa al-Ashʿarī (died 662 or 663), a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Nothing is known about al- Ashʿarī’s early life, though it is evident from his subsequent activities that he received the usual education of his time: studies in grammar, the Koran, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, canon law, and Scholastic theology. It can also be assumed that he was deeply influenced...
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