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Arab Muslim preacher and scholar (c.1116–1201)

Also known as: Ibn al-Dschauzī, Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Muhammad Abu al-Farash Ibn al-Jawzi, Dschauzi, Ibn al-Jahwzi, Ibn al-Jawzī, Imam Ibn al-Jawzī

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Known works

A medieval critique of anthropomorphism (2001)
المجتبى من المجتنى
Quṣṣāṣ wa-al-mudhakkirīn (1971)
Birr al-wālidayn wa-ṣilat al-raḥim
Das Buch der Weisungen für Frauen, Kitāb ahḳām al-nisā'