Al-Ash'ari
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Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist of the Shafi'i school, exegete, reformer, and scholastic theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Ash'ari school of Islamic theology. Wikipedia
Born: 873 AD, Basrah, Iraq
Died: 936 AD (age 63 years), Baghdad, Iraq
Full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Ashʿarī
Influenced by: Al-Shafi'i, Ibn Kullab, and Al-Jubba'i
Parents: Ismael bin Abi-Bishr
Denomination: Sunni
