About Amr ibn Matta
Amr ibn Matta was a writer and theologian.
ʿAmr ibn Mattā or Mattai al-Ṭīrhānī (, , Amru ibn Matta) was the author of a 14th-century work known as The Book of the Tower . Ibn Matta's work is modelled after, and takes its title from, the Book of the Tower by 12th-century Nestorian writer Mari ibn Suleiman. Ibn Matta's work is discussed in a lengthy entry in the ecclesiastical encyclopedia Miṣbāḥ al-Zulma by Ibn Kabar (d. 1324).
Based on his nisbah, ibn Matta was a native of Ṭīrhān, a district now part of the city of Samarra, Iraq.
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Who was Amr ibn Matta?
14th-century Syriac Christian author
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Amr ibn Matta was born in Samarra.
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Amr ibn Matta was a writer and theologian.
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