The Sociology of Philosophies

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{34} Yahya ibn Abi Mansur
(Zoroastrian convert to Islam;
Baghdad court astrologer;
astron tables)
{35} al-Jawhari (Baghdad court
astron, math)
{36} al-Farghani (Baghdad court
astron/astrol)
37 Ibn al-Qasim al-Raqqi
(Sabian star worshipper,
logic) 
38 Jibril b. Bakhtishu
(Jundishapur, medical doctor
to Baghdad caliph)
39 al-Barmaki (Baghdad court
astrol/astron; tr.)
40 Theodore (Christian tr.) 
42 Dhu’l-Nun al-Misri (Egypt
Sufi, alc, Coptic Neoplatonist)
43 al-Kharkhi (Baghdad Sufi) 
44 Mansur b. Ammar (same) 
45 Bishr b. al-Hati (same) 
46 Abu ÀAli al-Sindi (Hindu
convert, mystic)
47 Benjamin al-NahÀawendi (Jew,
f. karaite rational theol)
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48 Daniel al Qumisi (Jerusalem,
Jew, karaite)
49 Habbib ibn Bahriz (Christian
bishop of Harran, northern
Iraq) 
50 ÀAbd-al-Azzis al-Makki
(Baghdad; conserv. hadith,
kalam methods for debate)
51 Abu YaÀqub al-Shahham
(Basra MuÀtazilite head)
52 al-Kashini (kalam)


(^53) ÀAbbad b. Sulayman (Basra
MuÀtazilite; atomist)
(^54) ÀAmr al-Jahiz (Basra
MuÀtazilite; master of Arabic
prose; religious essays, nat
hist)
55 al-Iskafi (Baghdad court
MuÀtazilite; crit. Nazzam)
56 JaÀfar ibn-Harb (Baghdad
court MuÀtazilite)
57 Ahmad b. Abi Du’ad
(Baghdad MuÀtazilite; chief
magistrate of Inquisition)
58 al-Qasim ibn-Ibrahim (Imam;
infl. by MuÀtazilite)
59 JaÀfar ibn Mubashshir
(Baghdad MuÀtazilite)
60 Ibn NaÀimah al-Himsi
(Christian, worked for
al-Kindi; tr. Plotinus as
“Theology of Aristotle”)
61 Yahya ibn al-Bitriq (Baghdad
tr.)
{62} Banu Musa (3 brothers;
Baghdad House of Wisdom;
astron, astrol, math;
organized Greek tr.)
{63} Abu MaÀshar (astrol)
64 Yuhanna ibn Masawaih
(Jundishapur Christian, 1st
head of Baghdad House of
Wisdom; tr.)
65 al-Harish al-Muhasibi (Basra,
Baghdad; kalam combined
with law; changed Sufism
from asceticism to mysticism)
i 66 al-Saqati (Junayd’s uncle;
initiated him into mysticism)
67 Ibn-Karram (Nishapur; f.
Karramite sect,
anthropomorphic
compromise) 
68 al-Bukhari (main hadith
collection) 
69 Muslim (same) 
70 Hayuye (Hiwi) al-Balkhi (Jew,
Manichaean dualist) 
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