Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāyīnī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāyīnī (or Isfarāʾīnī), Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Mihrān al-Mihrjānī al-Nīsābūrī al-Shāfiʿī (d. Muḥarram 418/February 1027), was, along with Abū Bakr b. Fūrak (d. 406/1015), the leading representative of the Ashʿarī school of theology in Nishapur in the late fourth/tenth and early fifth/eleventh centuries. Born in Isfarāyīn, al-Isfarāyīnī studied ḥadīth with Daʿlaj al-Sijzī (d. 351/962), Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī (d. 384/458), and Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī (d. 371/981). In 351/962 at the latest