Abū Manṣūr al-Iṣfahānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū Manṣūr Maʿmar b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Iṣfahānī (d. 418/1027) was a traditionist, a self-proclaimed Ḥanbalī Ṣūfī shaykh , and author of several treatises on Ṣūfī doctrine and a Ṣūfī manual. Born between 335/946 and 339/950, in Isfahan, Abū Manṣūr studied there with renowned traditionists of his time, such as Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī (d. 353/964), Abū l-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī (d. 360/971), and ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Ḥayyān (d. 369/979), known as Abū