Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani

Not to be confused with Abu Sulayman al-Sijistani.

Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani (Persian: ابو یعقوب سجستانی‎) or Sijzi (fl. 971 CE) was a Persian Ismaili missionary and Neo-Platonic philosopher, who died sometime around 971 CE (358 AH). His works were studied by the Ismailis until modern times. Among his works, only Ithbat al-Nubuwat, Yanabi', and Kashf al-Mahjub have been published; the last one has survived only in a Persian version, which has been translated to French by Henry Corbin.

Further reading

• Paul Ernest Walker (1993). Early Philosophical Shiism: the Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44129-3.
• Paul Ernest Walker (1994). The Wellsprings of Wisdom: A Study of Abu Yaqub Al-Sijistani's Kitab Al-Yanabi. Univ of Utah Pr (Tx). ISBN 0-87480-421-3.

External links

• Abu Ya‘qub al-Sijistani at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy