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al-Sahib ibn Abbad
Al-Sahib ibn Abbad was a Persian statesman and man of letters, vizier to the Buyid rulers Mu'ayyad al-Dawla and Fakhr al-Dawla at Ray and Isfahan from 976 until his death in 995. A pupil of Ibn al-Amid, he gathered poets and scholars at his court and owned a famous library. He supported the Mu'tazili school of theology and wrote on the Arabic language.
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