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Biography and setting
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari is presented as theologian associated with Basra and Baghdad. The working chronology for this record is 260-324 AH / 874-936 CE. A central figure in Sunni theological articulation and debate.
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260-324 AH / 874-936 CE
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