Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Nguyen, Martin
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Brill
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Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sahl b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Adamī, called Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Aḥmad (d. 309/922) was a prominent early Ṣūfī exegete of the Qurʾān and a leading Ṣūfī personality in Baghdad. He was closely linked to the Ḥanbalī-affiliated pietistic movement and was, as a result, well regarded by much of the city's Ḥanbalī population. Because of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ's ardent defence of the famous Baghdadi mystic al-Ḥallāj (d. 309/922)-who was imprisoned and on trial at the time-and his harsh criticism of the wazīr