Al-Kirmani, Commentary on 'Causes and symptoms' Wellcome L0013850

Abu al-Hakam al-Kirmani ( ar, أبو الحكم الكرماني; died 1066 CE) was a prominent philosopher and scholar from the Muslim

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. A student of

Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti ( ar, أبو القاسم مسلمة بن أحمد المجريطي: c. 950–1007), known or Latin as , was an Arab Muslim astronomer, chemist, mathematician, economist and Scholar in Islamic Spain, ac ...

, he was a

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advocate, and seen as an influence on

Ibn 'Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , ' Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely inf ...

, but he also wrote extensively on

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and

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. His exact date of death is not known as he fled to

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in the twelfth century. It is possible that it was he who returned to al-Andalus with the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity.

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