Ibn al-Muqaffa'

Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa
Ibn al-Muqaffa; by Khalil Gibran.
Born
Jur, Fars, Umayyad Caliphate (modern-day Firuzabad, Iran)
Died139 AH (756/757CE) or 142 AH (759/760CE)
Basra, Abbasid Caliphate
Occupation(s)Author and translator

Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya (Arabic: ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē (Persian: روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Arabic: ابن المقفع; died c. 756/759), was a Persian translator, philosopher, author and thinker who wrote in the Arabic language. He bore the name Rōzbeh/Rūzbeh before his comparatively late conversion to Islam from Manichaeism.

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