al-Nawbakhtī, al-Ḥasan b. Mūsā - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weaver, James
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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Mūsā al-Nawbakhtī (d. after 300/912) was a member of the prominent al-Nawbakhtī family of Baghdad and an Imāmī Shīʿī scholar active in the fields of theology and philosophy. He was known by later authors for his rich doxographical output, as well as his involvement in an influential group of late third/ninth-century Imāmī theologians who adopted several theses of the Muʿtazilī theological school. The information about his life is scant. The Shīʿī biobibliographer Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Najāshī (d. 450/1058)