Al-Hasan al-Basrī
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Education, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Theology, Theologians, Islam, Muslims, Mosques
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History
Article abstract: Al-Hasan was the most famous of Muslim teachers and preachers of the generation that followed the age of the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions. His views on religion and politics in the early stages of the Islamic Empire, as well as his code of conduct, made him the model of the pious Muslim in the formative age of Islam.
Early Life
Abū Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Hasan Yasār al-Basrī was born in Medina in 642, ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. His father, Yasar, of non-Arab origin, had been taken prisoner when the Muslims...
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