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Abū Sulaymān Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Bahrām al-Sijistānī (also: al-Sijzī) was a philosopher and a logician (manṭiqī). He is thought to have been born in Sijistān during the first quarter of the tenth century and to have died in Baghdad during the last quarter of the tenth century. He succeeded Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī as a head of the Aristotelian School of Baghdad. Seemingly, he never engaged in systematic teaching, but his philosophical circle became famous during his lifetime as it was the object of recorded sessions by one of the most important men of letters of tenth-century Baghdad, Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī.
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Cottrell, E.J. (2011). Abū Sulaymān al-Sijistānī al-Manṭiqī. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_9
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