873 births

Japanese poet

Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Junbalani al-Khasibi (873-968), commonly known simply as al-Khasibi, was an Alawite religious leader and missionary. He originally was from a village called Jonbalā, between Kufa and Wasit in Iraq, which was the center of the Qarmatians. He was a member of a well-educated family with close ties to eleventh Twelver Imam Hasan al-Askari and a scholar of the Alawites, also known as Nusayris, which is now present in Syria, southern Turkey and northern Lebanon.