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Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī


Born
in Maarrat al-Nu'man, Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic
February 23, 0937

Died
April 15, 1058

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Abul ʿAla -Ѳʿ (Arabic أبو العلاء المعري Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, full name أبو العلاء أحمد بن عبد الله بن سليمان التنوخي المعري Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaimān al-Tanūẖ� al-Maʿarrī, born 973 CE / AH 363, died 1058 CE/ AH 449) was a blind Syrian philosopher, poet, and writer.

He was a controversial rationalist of his time, attacking the dogmas of religion rejecting the claim that Islam or any other religion possessed the truths they claim and considered the speech of prophets as a lie (literally, "forge") and "impossible" to be true. He was equally sarcastic towards the religions of Muslims, Jews, and Christians. He was also a vegan who argued for animal rights.

In 2013, almost a thousand years after his death, a Jihadist
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“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.”
-Ѳʿ

“Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets

“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.”
Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

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