David A. Ede
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LOCATION: Kalamazoo, MI, United States
Associate Professor of Religion, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
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Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī was a deeply pious and ascetic Muslim who was one of the most important religious figures in early Islam. Ḥasan was born nine years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. One year after the Battle of Ṣiffīn (657), he moved to Basra, a military camp town situated 50 miles (80 km)…
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