Abu al-Abbas al-Lawkari

Abu al-Abbas al-Lawkari, fully Abu-al Abbas Fazl Ibn Muhammad al-Lawkari, was an Iranian philosopher active in the eleventh century who died in the early twelfth century in Mary, in what is now Turkmenistan. He belonged to Avicenna's philosophical school, studying under Bahmanyar and gaining access to Avicenna's own teachings through that connection, and held what has been described as a vital position in the chain of Islamic philosophy, completing his contributions to Avicenna's Al-Taliqat by 1109. Writing in both Persian and Arabic, his works include the treatise Asrar al-Hikmat and Bayan al-Haq-Bidiman al-Sidq, alongside a collected Diwan of poetry, and his contemporaries included Omar Khayyam, al-Khazini, Sanai and Ghazali.