Amr ibn Matta

Amr ibn Matta (ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭīrhānī) was the author of a 14th-century work known as Kitāb al-majdal li-l-istibṣār wa-l-jadal ("Book of the Tower, for reflection and discussion"). Ibn Matta's work is modelled after, and takes its title from, the Book of the Tower by 12th-century Nestorian writer Mari ibn Suleiman. Ibn Matta's work is discussed in a lengthy entry in the ecclesiastical encyclopedia Miṣbāḥ al-ẓulma by Ibn Kabar (d. 1324).

Based on his nisbah, ibn Matta was a native of Ṭīrhān, a district now part of the city of Samarra, Iraq.

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