Abū Ḥafṣ al-Miṣrī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Mourad, Suleiman A.
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Abū Ḥafṣ al-Miṣrī (fl. fourth/tenth century), was a Muʿtazilī theologian. His full name is not known. Our knowledge of him is derived principally from a few Muʿtazilī sources and can be summarised as follows. He studied with the Muʿtazilī theologian Abū Bakr b. al-Ikhshīd (d. 326/938) in Baghdad. After that, he lived for some time in Basra, where he taught the views of the school of Ibn al-Ikhshīd; among his students there were Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Māzinī and Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥabashī. The latter