al-Fūrakī, Abū Bakr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan Abū Bakr al-Fūrakī (408-78/1017-85) was an Ashʿarī scholar who wrote the theological treatise Kitāb al-Niẓāmī fī uṣūl al-dīn , so named for his patron the Saljūq vizier Niẓām al-Mulk (d. 485/1092). Born in Nīshāpūr in 408/1017 al-Fūrakī later moved to Baghdad where, after his death, he was buried by the tomb of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī (d. 324/935-6). His father, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Abī Ayyūb (d. 421/1030),