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Abū’l -Hasan ‘AIī ibn Sahl Rabbān al-Ṭabarī was born in the environs of the city of Marw, in the province of Khurasān in Persia (presently Mary, in Turkmenistan), about ad 783, before the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (786–809). His father Sahl was a prominent citzen of great learning and a highly placed state official. As a religious leader in the Syriac speaking community, he was reverently called Rabbān (from the Aramaic for teacher), and had far-reaching knowledge in theology, philosophy, and medicine.
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