ʻAmmār al-Baṣrī, active 9th century
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Name (Latin)
ʻAmmār al-Baṣrī, active 9th century
Name (Arabic)
عمار البصري، كان حيا القرن ال-9
Other forms of name
Al-Baṣrī, ʻAmmār, active 9th century
Baṣrī, ʻAmmār al-, active 9th century
Başri, ʻAmmār, active 9th century
البصري، عمار، كان حيا القرن ال-9
Start period
08
Associated country
Syria
Field of activity
Apologetics
Occupation
Theologians
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Kitāb al-burhān ; wa-Kitāb al-masāʼil wa-al-ajwibah, c1977:title page (ʻAmmār al-Baṣrī)
- Ninth-century Arabic Christian apology and polemics, 2015:title page (ʻAmmār al-Baṣrī's Kitāb al-Masā'il wa-l-ajwiba)
- Ammar al-Basri (Arabic: عمار البصري, ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī) was a 9th-century East Syrian theologian and apologist. Ammar's work is considered the first systematic Christian theology in Arabic. Not much is known about his life except that he was a native of Basra ( (Wikipedia, March 7, 2017:) )