Abū l-Muʾthir al-Bahlawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Gaiser, Adam R.
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Abū l-Muʾthir al-Ṣalt b. Khamīs al-Kharūṣī al-Bahlawī (d. sometime before 280/893-4) was an Omani Ibāḍī historian and jurist. He was born in Bahlā, in the interior of Oman, but lived most of his life in nearby Nizwa, a town that was considered the seat of the Ibāḍī imāmate up to the second half of the third/ninth century. He studied under the Basran Ibāḍī imām , jurist, and scholar Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb al-Raḥīl (or al-Ruḥayl, d. 260/873) and was a