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A Māturīdite theologian and jurisprudent who flourished in the turn of the thirteenth century, al-Nasafī is best known for his jurisprudential textbooks and a creed that became subject to a number of commentaries by subsequent generations of theologians.
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Kaukua, J. (2015). Al-Nasafī. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_14-1
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