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Amr ibn Matta

14th-century Syriac Christian author

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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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· Wikidata: Q22935918

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