Place

Basra

Iraq · Modern Iraq

A great early center of Islamic learning in southern Iraq, birthplace of the theologian al-Ash'ari and a cradle of Arabic grammar and theology.

Thinkers Connected to Basra

Al-Ash'ari

874 CE – 936 CE

The theologian who turned against his own teachers to argue that reason must serve revelation, founding the school that became Sunni orthodoxy.

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