al-Lawkarī, Abū l-ʿAbbās - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Griffel, Frank
Leiden
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Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Faḍl b. Muḥammad al-Lawkarī (d. after 503/1109) was a philosopher of the school tradition of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, d. 428/1037) and an astronomer who was active in the Khurāsānī city of Merv, today a field of ruins in Turkmenistan. 1. Life He or his family hailed from Lawkar, a town on the east bank of the Murghāb river, south of Merv, that was destroyed by the Mongols (Yāqūt, 4:370-1). Early in his life he must have gone to western Iran, where