Abu Ali ibn al-Banna (about 1005 to 11 January 1079) was an eleventh century Islamic scholar, author and diarist of the Hanbali legal school in Baghdad. A member of the Hanbali legal guild who studied jurisprudence under prominent teachers, he was described by the biographer Ibn al-Sam'ani as one of the leading Islamic scholars of his day, and he taught at the Jami al-Qasr and Jami al-Mansur mosques in Baghdad. He was a prolific author credited with well over a hundred works spanning ethics, theology, hadith, jurisprudence and history, and surviving fragments of his diary, covering August 1068 to September 1069, are a valued primary source on daily life in eleventh century Baghdad.
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Abu Ali ibn al-Banna,, was an 11th-century author, scholar, and diarist from Baghdad. According to Ibn al-Sam'ani, he was one of the leading Islamic scholars of his day and a prolific author. Ibn al-Banna kept a diary during his lifetime, part of which survives today and is valuable as a primary source about life in 11th-century Baghdad. He was a member of the Hanbali legal guild.
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